The Rocky Mountain Cannabis Convention and Wellness Expo will be held at the Colorado Convention Center this Friday and Saturday, July 9th and 10th. The two-day event will feature hundreds of vendors from around the country, as well as a variety of speakers and specialists, and a portion of the the event's proceeds will benefit SAFER.

Executive Director Mason Tvert will be a featured speaker and SAFER will have a booth at the event, so please drop by and say hello!

WHAT: Rocky Mountain Cannabis Convention and Wellness Expo (website)

WHEN: Friday, July 9, 2 pm to 9 pm & Saturday, July 10, 10 am to 7 pm

WHERE: Colorado Convention Center, 700 14th Street, Denver (map)

DETAILS: Tickets are $20 at the door -- NO medical marijuana license required

SAFER's Mason Tvert has a new piece on The Huffington Post regarding a George W. Bush holdover in the Obama Administration who is trolling for dirt on medical marijuana dispensaries in hopes of undermining the burgeoning medical marijuana industry.

Here's an excerpt, or you can CLICK HERE to read the entire post:

According to an e-mail just unearthed by Complete Colorado, a Bush holdover in the U.S. Drug Czar's office is fishing for information that links crime to the growing number of medical marijuana dispensaries in Colorado.

The e-mail is addressed to Colorado's chief medical officer, Ned Calonge, at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, and it appears to be authored by an Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) research assistant on behalf of former Bush (and current Obama) drug warrior Kevin Sabet.

A great column appeared this week in the News-Press, a popular newspaper in southwest Florida.  An excerpt is below, or you can read the entire piece by clicking HERE:

Alcohol is the most popular recreational drug in the world and the most dangerous with 100,000 people dying annually in America from the direct health effects of drinking.

Alcohol use is also associated with half of all violent crime including vehicular homicide.

Marijuana is the second most popular recreational drug on our planet and the safest. No one has ever died from the effects of smoking weed. No statistics are available for marijuana-related violence because it almost never occurs.

Almost 1 million United States citizens are arrested every year for smoking cannabis and many Americans are serving life sentences for growing this popular weed. The only real risk associated with smoking pot is getting arrested.