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Associated Press: MU students to rally for pot usage |
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Written by Associated Press
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Wednesday, 07 April 2010 |
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Marijuana supporters at the University of Missouri are planning a
rally Thursday to build support for pot smoking as an alternative to
underage alcohol use and binge drinking.
A group called Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation organized
rallies last week at more than 80 colleges and universities in 34
states. Proponents on the Columbia campus moved their event to this week
because of spring break.
SAFER is asking campus presidents to endorse what it calls an
"informed and dispassionate public debate" on recreational pot use.
The group's Emerald Initiative is a play on the Amethyst Initiative
signed last year by more than 130 college presidents. That movement
suggests consideration of lowering the legal drinking age.
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