In a column about Denver coming under an international spotlight during the DNC, Denver Post Editor Dan Haley discusses SAFER's executive director and the local support for the SAFER choice: 

The only joints that proliferate in this town are Starbucks and those little ones smoked by Mason Tvert's peeps in Civic Center park.

Coming off the launch of SAFER's "Cindy McCain: Drug Dealer" campaign, J.D. Tuccille has a great piece featured on Examiner.com ("Cindy McCain makes millions while Greg Gibson does time") which explores the differences in how alcohol dealer Cindy McCain is being treated compared to folks like Greg Gibson, who is in prison for selling marijuana. 

Cindy McCain may get deluxe taxpayer-funded quarters in the White House as a partial result of the wealth and connections that come with masterminding sales of her preferred intoxicant. For transporting shipments of his preferred intoxicant, Greg Gibson has already spent years in somewhat less-splendid taxpayer-funded quarters at the Great Plains Correctional Facility, a privately run prison that houses many of Arizona's convicted lawbreakers far from home in Hinton, Oklahoma. And a life of financial ruin along with the dodgy status of a convicted felon awaits him upon his release from prison.

 
 The White House vs. Great Plains Correctional Facility: Are they really all that different?

How many golf-marijuana puns can you find in this letter-to-the-editor that appeared in the Boston Globe this week? (Answer below the fold)

A pitch for golfer's high 

GUZZLING BEER and wine on the links could soon be legal in Massachusetts if state lawmakers get their way ("Is alcohol par for the course?" City & Region, July 22). Many amateur golfers find alcohol to be a relaxing or refreshing addition to the game, and some more competitive players even use it to calm their nerves. Although such legislation is sure to appease folks who enjoy mixing rounds of golf with rounds of drinks, it has others worried. Some fear it would lead to more rowdy behavior and possibly damage to courses.

Let me recommend a potential solution: grass. Not grass like that on the green; the other "green": marijuana. As with alcohol, many adults use marijuana to relax and recreate. Yet it does not contribute to all the fighting, property damage, and other unpleasant behavior that often accompanies boozing. Sure, it may sound like a long shot now. But as more people come to realize marijuana is safer than alcohol, it's only a matter of time before laws prohibiting it are scratched and its use simply becomes par for the course.

MASON TVERT
Executive director, Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation
Denver