Even Mason Tvert, the fiery advocate behind the state's pot-legalization measure, buried his head in his hand and cringed at the pro-marijuana rhetoric of Steve Kubby. "They really are crazy," said Kubby, a candidate running for the Libertarian Party's 2008 presidential nomination, about those who still want to keep pot illegal. "There's nothing we can do but hope they die." Some gasped, most giggled, at the fl ailing-arms candidate as he screamed about how messed up - he used a punchier word for "messed" - the country currently is to a crowd of about 30 students and community members in the Clark Building on Thursday night. [continues 577 words]
CSU reverses its decision to allow political fliers that depict a marijuana leaf. Exactly why is it in dispute? Backers of a pot-legalization measure were blocked from distributing fliers that depicted a marijuana leaf on campus before the ACLU got involved. "How many lawyers does it take to be able to exercise your free speech?" asked Seth Anthony, chair of the CSU Libertarian Party. The CSULP and the CSU chapter of Students for Sensible Drug Policy wanted to distribute fliers advocating Amendment 44, which would legalize small amounts of marijuana for those 21 and older. [continues 426 words]
Fort Collins, Colo. - Coloradans are set to vote on whether to legalize marijuana after a lively signature collection effort that included help from CSU students. The Secretary of State's office last week certified the required number of signatures for the Alcohol-Marijuana Equalization Initiative to be placed on November's ballot. "This is a chance to make history," said Ben Prytherch, a junior liberal arts major, who was one of hundreds of volunteers who helped collect the nearly 68,000 required signatures. [continues 494 words]
As A Pro-Pot Legalization Group Works To Get A Statewide Measure On November's Ballot On The Heels Of Its Victory In Denver, The Controversial Debate Rages. The concert floor was vomit-drenched, Mason Tvert said, and alcohol was the culprit. "We saw about 10 girls carried out," said Tvert, executive director of the pro-pot legalization SAFER , about a Thursday night concert he attended. "They weren't smoking marijuana. They were wasted (on alcohol)." And as SAFER (Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation) pushes its statewide ballot measure that would legalize marijuana, the group continues to hammer its message: Alcohol is far more dangerous than marijuana, and therefore it's illogical and fundamentally unfair to keep the plant illegal. [continues 1093 words]
After his group's reverberating pot victory last week making Denver the first U.S. city to legalize the use of recreational marijuana, Mason Tvert has garnered national attention. He's been juggling calls from several of the nation's top newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post, and debating pot opponents on cable networks like Fox News and MSNBC. But the main focus of Tvert, executive director of Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation (SAFER), is still CSU and other Colorado universities, which he says are at the forefront of the national alcohol problem - one that could be alleviated if drinkers would toke instead. [continues 968 words]
