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"Marijuana is Safer" Debuts

By Jeralyn, Section Media
Posted on Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 09:24:37 AM EST
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Marijuana is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink? is now available for immediate delivery. It's already #11 on the Amazon Bestseller list for new releases. It may be the best-selling marijuana book to date on Amazon.

Written by Mason Tvert, Paul Armentano and Steve Fox, with a foreward by former Seattle police chief Norm Stamper, the book argues marijuana is a safer recreational alternative to other substances like alcohol.

If you're in the neighborhood, there will be a launch event for the book Sunday at 2 p.m. at 8 Rivers Cafe, 1550 Blake St. in Denver. The book's Facebook page, with 4,700 members right now, is here.

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    "Marijuana is Safer" Debuts | 18 comments (18 topical)

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    I should have known I'd find you guys in (5.00 / 1) (#6)
    by easilydistracted on Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 10:06:21 AM EST
    this thread. Hmm...I'm here, too. Oh well, I couldn't think of better company. Hey, pass that that b*ng and turn up the volume on that eight track.

    Is that freedom rock on the 8-track man?... (none / 0) (#12)
    by kdog on Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 11:07:39 AM EST
    well turn it up easy d!

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    Heh, I already know that kdog is a safer (none / 0) (#1)
    by Militarytracy on Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 09:30:43 AM EST
    person to be with than I am :)

    LOL... (none / 0) (#3)
    by kdog on Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 09:35:02 AM EST
    I love the "driving people to drink" bit on the cover, very clever...my moms used to always say "you kids are gonna drive me to drink!"

    Driving people to drink ain't cool...freedom, otoh, is very cool.  We should be more like Fonzi, no doubt.

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    Happy Friday... (none / 0) (#4)
    by MileHi Hawkeye on Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 09:51:25 AM EST
    ...my friend!  Just for you...

    Smoke Two Joints

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    On the Sublime... (none / 0) (#5)
    by kdog on Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 10:03:36 AM EST
    kick today are we old friend?  Nothing wrong with that...nothing at all.  I miss Bradley.

    "We're only gonna die for our own arrogance, so we might as well take our time."

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    I never really get off it. (none / 0) (#7)
    by MileHi Hawkeye on Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 10:10:18 AM EST
    They're one of those bands that I never, ever get tired of.  

    I miss Brad and LouDog too.

    /Hard work good, hard work fine, but first take care of head.

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    I hear that... (none / 0) (#8)
    by kdog on Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 10:30:02 AM EST
    they are heavily represented in my rotation too.

    As the founders of Skunk Records, I'm sure they would appreciate this book and the buzz it is getting.

    "I didn't know she had the GI Joe kung-fu grip!"

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    Good for Mason! (none / 0) (#2)
    by MileHi Hawkeye on Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 09:33:50 AM EST
    Preach the word.  

    I won't surrender my scotch (none / 0) (#9)
    by ricosuave on Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 10:52:38 AM EST
    I don't care how much better MJ is for me.  You will have to pry my Islay malt out of my cold dead hands.

    Some might say a nice malt would only (none / 0) (#10)
    by easilydistracted on Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 11:05:00 AM EST
    compliment a nice doobie and vice-versa.

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    No need... (none / 0) (#11)
    by kdog on Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 11:06:35 AM EST
    enjoy it all rico...all in moderation!!!

    We just want our favorite vice to be no longer pried from our living hands, followed by chaining those hands behind our backs and being taken away by the people in gray.

    Your favorite should stop getting preferential status, until it does we gotta rag on it a little to further our cause...nothing personal:)

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    Special Rights for spliffs? NO WAY! (none / 0) (#14)
    by ricosuave on Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 01:54:07 PM EST
    I don't understand why we have to grant "special rights" to spliffs.  Granting such special status will only diminish my relationship with liquor, and it goes against the bible.  I believe that we should do the following:

    • Pass a federal DOHA (the "Defense of Hooch Act") which asserts that the relationship between a man and his liquor is the natural order of things, and which frees any state from recognizing a relationship with dope granted by any other state
    • Support scientific studies that show that the craving for alcohol is something you are born with, while the desire for cannabis is an entirely learned (and therefore unlearnable) activity
    • Create "treatment centers" in which marijuana users can be "cured" of their desire for doobies, and will be taught the wonders of distilled spirits
    • Pass resolutions in every state legislature acknowledging alcohol's special place in historic texts such as the bible and Dashiell Hammett novels
    • Add the words "80 proof" to all money printed in the US

    Only through these measures can we protect the sanctity of alcohol from the challenges it will face from the evil weed.  

    I know I usually preach heavily about the need for a complete absence of government regulation and control, but this is different and I do not believe I betray my strong conservative leanings with my desire for the government to regulate this aspect of our lives.  We want a government that is just small enough to drown in your bongwater.

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    LOL... (none / 0) (#15)
    by kdog on Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 02:03:20 PM EST
    well played sir, thanks for the laugh:)

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    I'm with brad Pitt on this (none / 0) (#13)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 12:28:45 PM EST
    MJ turns me into a doughnut. I can't drive for sh*t when I'm stoned.

    where's the swap? (none / 0) (#16)
    by diogenes on Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 03:53:21 PM EST
    Hey--if you want to ban alcohol and legalize pot, then maybe you have a point.  Otherwise you just are adding pot to alcohol at parties.  
    Get off the "health" high horse already.  The only good reason to legalize pot is to cripple the narco mobs getting rich off of it and running criminal gangs/shooting cops/bribing governments.  Surely you're not trying to say that if there were a marijuana blight that killed off all the pot plants that the world would be any less healthy without them.

    There are dozens and dozens... (none / 0) (#17)
    by kdog on Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 04:00:05 PM EST
    of good reason to legalize, but we really only need one.

    Freedom.

    The swap would never work...if alcohol prohibition can't teach us of the err of marijuana prohibition, at least we can let it remind us of the err of alcohol prohibition.  We tried it and it was a disaster.

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    Do I really have to spell this out (none / 0) (#18)
    by scarshapedstar on Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 07:03:59 PM EST
    Otherwise you just are adding pot to alcohol at parties.

    Leaving aside the fact that prohibitions against (presumably) underaged drinking have already been broken in your scenario, thus kinda undermining your whole "prohibition works and is awesome" argument... have you ever been to a party, and if so, on what planet? You mean to tell me you've never seen anyone smoking up? Unless you're talking about a nine-year-old's birthday party, you just don't seem to be coming from a reality-based viewpoint here.

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