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Lecture: Marijuana is Safer: So why are we driving people to drink?

by David Guard, August 12, 2009, 12:13pm
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Mason Tvert is the cofounder and executive director of Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation (SAFER) and the SAFER Voter Education Fund. He appears frequently in the news and travels the country promoting the "Marijuana Is Safer Than Alcohol" message. He resides in Denver, where he serves on the city’s Marijuana Policy Review Panel appointed by Mayor John W. Hickenlooper. "Marijuana is Safer" compares and contrasts the relative harms and legal status of the two most popular recreational substances in the world—marijuana and alcohol. Through an objective examination of the two drugs and the laws and social practices that steer people toward alcohol, the authors pose a simple yet rarely considered question: Why do we punish adults who make the rational, safer choice to use marijuana instead of alcohol? VIDEO: Part 1 of 2. SAFER's Mason Tvert debates a DEA Agent about why adults in Denver should be allowed to possess small amounts of marijuana: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZMzQ_8Px80 Part 2 of 2. SAFER's Mason Tvert debates a DEA Agent about why adults in Denver should be allowed to possess small amounts of marijuana: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYFxLNVm7cI For more information, contact 417-434-8279 or mssussdp@yahoo.com.
Date: 
Thu, 09/10/2009 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Location: 
3950 Newman Rd
Joplin, MO
United States
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