Hey, it beats working for Chickenlooper. Check out this zinger from Denver Mayor John "Chickenlooper" Hickenlooper's campaign manager, which appeared today in a little section in the Rocky Mountain News. The real story was here.

Extra! April 12

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"I guess if the pot-smoking chicken is coming, maybe I better go order some more pizza. Seriously, that's the biggest concern." Lynea Hansen,

Mayor John Hickenlooper's campaign manager, as she prepared for a Wednesday night appearance at which a pro- marijuana demonstrator in a chicken suit was expected. 

Not a very original jab, but, then again, we're the ones using a chicken suit to call out a politician for being a chicken... (continued below)

MTV's "The Real World" is basically the best tool (or should I say group of tools) SAFER could ever have to prove its point that marijuana is safer than alcohol. For years MTV has been throwing a bunch of strangers together and allowed them to only use alcohol and not marijuana for months at a time. Recently a couple other reality shows have also seen some alcohol-related problems that probably wouldn't have occurred had marijuana been the drug of choice instead.

On Tuesday evening the University of Arkansas student senate voted down the Razorback SAFER Resolution sponsored by the campus NORML chapter.  The campus paper included this scathing editorial of the student un-representatives and their politicized decision, as well as this news story. This is undoubtedly just a small battle in the war for marijuana-alcohol equality at the University of Arkansas, and the students are already planning their next steps. 

After the resolution failed, Charles McClure, vice president of NORML said, "Clearly the Senators are not representing their constituents; we will be petitioning, and the students will have an opportunity to vote on this themselves."