Cindy McCain: Drug Dealer - DrugDealerCindy.com

Our friend Mason Tvert and the good folks at SAFER have announced a new publicity campaign called “Drug Dealer Cindy”, which highlights the fact that Mrs. John McCain is a beer heiress guilty of pushing a drug more harmful than alcohol.

I’d also like to add that Mrs. McCain drives around Arizona with a personalized license plate reading “MS BUD”, which I can guarantee would be yanked as a “drug promoting reference” if it were on a cannabis user’s car.  Also, don’t forget that Cindy McCain is an admitted drug addict who stole Percocet and Vicodin from her own non-profit charity medical relief organization.  Mrs. McCain did no prison time for that crime, which defense lawyers noted would probably have been the case if she were a poor minority woman not married to a US senator.

Download the NORML Daily Audio Stash for 2008-06-24

Today on the Stash NORML Founder Keith Stroup joins us to wish Dr. Lester Grinspoon a happy birthday.  Keith calls him the “intellectual leader” of this movement, beginning with his groundbreaking book, Marihuana Reconsidered (back in the day before they put the “j” in!) and to this day he advocates for the medical uses of marijuana and the end of adult marijuana prohibition.

Also joining us today is Mason Tvert from SAFER in Denver.  After a rash of air rage incidents involving alcohol intoxication diverted flights to Denver, Mason asks, “why not allow marijuana smoking in the airport smoking lounges as a way to relieve the stress of air travel?”  A novel idea, eh?

Plus you get another dose of my pal Chief Greenbud, along with another episode of Reefer Madness coming from West Virginia.

So go get the four-footre, it’s time for your NORML Daily Audio Stash!

MyFox Colorado | Group Wants Pot Allowed in Airport Smoking Lounges
DENVER (MyFOXColorado.com) - One pro-marijuana group is calling on the government to allow marijuana in smoking lounges at airports across the country.

Cigarette smoking at Denver International Airport and other airports across the country is restricted to smoking lounges.

Members of the Denver-based organization Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation (SAFER) will ask the government Tuesday to allow pot in airport smoking lounges.

The group says in a press release that the idea will address the growing number of in-flight problems involving drunk and disorderly passengers. Members claim marijuana is a better alternative to alcohol to help more fliers relax and deal with the anxiety of air travel.

Denver voters approved a measure that made possession of one ounce or less of marijuana in the city legal. That happened almost three years ago. It was the first city in the nation to pass such a law.

Possession of marijuana remains illegal under Colorado state law as well as federal law. Denver city attorneys can still use state and federal law to prosecute marijuana possession cases in the city.

Would a marijuana smoking lounge at the airport help me be more comfortable cramming my super-size body into those gymnast-sized seats?

NEW PALTZ, NEW YORK — [A crowd of approximately 50 people gathered around 2 p.m] outside the Haggerty Administration Building Friday [on the campus of State University of New York at New Paltz] to protest the campus drug policy, illegal police searches of student rooms on campus and the judicial procedure.

Junior journalism major Brian Kimbiz, the main organizer of the protest, said that campus police would tell students that they had to submit to searches of their rooms when they were not obligated to. In some cases, they would illegally enter students rooms without consent from the resident.

Adir Cohen, an undeclared freshman, helped organize the protest after one of his friends had been caught with possession of marijuana. Police, Cohen said, illegally entered his room, finding the marijuana, on the same day he received his acceptance letter into the school’s Honor’s Program. Prior to that offense, the student received his first strike a few months prior. The protest was scheduled to coincide with their friend’s judicial hearing, to take place in the HAB.The two strike policy, according to the Students Affair page on the [university] web site, says “…for possession of marijuana, first offense: not less than Disciplinary Probation and educational and/or clinical intervention, not more than Expulsion. Possession of marijuana, second offense; not less than Expulsion.”

But meanwhile, that same set of policies allow students 21 and over to possess alcohol in their dorm rooms, and the penalties legal-aged students would face for giving alcohol to an underaged student, possessing an open container outside their room, or under-aged students would face for possessing alcohol, are “not less than Warning Probation; not more than Suspension”, with “sanctions ranging from warning probation to disciplinary probation and denial of campus residency.”

Now the prohibitionists would say, well, of course! Marijuana is illegal! Yes, but how many times have you heard the tale of college students dying from binge alcohol drinking? You never hear of deaths from college bong circles because marijuana is non-toxic - nobody dies from it! And last I checked, being under 21 with a beer in your hand is illegal, too. So for being caught breaking the law with marijuana twice, we expel the student, but for being caught breaking the law twice with alcohol, the student might get probation or a suspension.

Policies like SUNY New Paltz’s divert students from the safer drug, marijuana, to the most dangerous drug, alcohol. If you’re a student, check out SaferChoice.org, from Safer Alternatives for Enjoyable Recreation (SAFER), Students for Sensible Drug Policy, and look into forming a NORML chapter at your campus to have your student government address this insanity. On our upcoming Friday Stash, we interview Brendan Rivard from the University of Central Florida’s NORML Chapter and how they’re having success with the SAFER model.