SAFER's Mason Tvert has a new piece on The Huffington Post discussing the SAFER Campuses Initiative Nationwide Day of Action and growing SAFER movement on campuses across the country. 

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

College Students Nationwide: Allow Marijuana as a Safer Alternative to Alcohol

Students at more than 80 colleges and universities across 34 states held rallies on their campuses this week to recognize April as National Alcohol Awareness Month. At first glance, these events don't appear to be anything out of the ordinary. The message behind them, however, was anything but ordinary.

At the rallies, students called on their respective schools to "stop driving them to drink" and urged them to allow marijuana as a safer recreational alternative to alcohol. In particular, the students argued that laws and policies on and around most college campuses punish students more harshly for marijuana use than for alcohol use, steering them toward drinking and away from using a far less harmful substance instead: marijuana. 

Every day college students demand the right to use marijuana, but it's not every day that they do so in an effort to curb alcohol use and abuse. Needless to say, the effort raised eyebrows and generated quite a bit of media attention.