[Vision2020] Pot backers all abuzz about Super Bowl link
Sunil
sunilramalingam at hotmail.com
Mon Jan 20 20:13:58 PST 2014
First a quick correction: I wrote 'Roger's,' and the damn auto-correct function on my phone changed it to 'Tiger's.' I should proofread better before sending.
Paul will speak for himself, but I took it that both he and Roger were talking about health hazards from smoking MJ. That is, inhaling smoke could or would have a health hazard.
Sunil
From: thansen at moscow.com
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 19:18:45 -0800
To: godshatter at yahoo.com
CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Pot backers all abuzz about Super Bowl link
Mr. Rumelhart -
You allege that smoking marijuana "has to be dangerous at some level" and that "people are downplaying it's [its] risks".
I agree that people should not drive after smoking marijuana, nor should they partake in any other activity from which they are denied as a result of alcohol consumption, but . . .
What risks, related to smoking marijuana, are people downplaying?
Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .
"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)http://www.MoscowCares.com Tom HansenMoscow, Idaho
"There's room at the top they are telling you still.But first you must learn to smile as you kill,If you want to be like the folks on the hill."
- John Lennon
On Jan 20, 2014, at 6:41 PM, Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com> wrote:
Cigarette smoking is more prevalent than smoking marijuana,
especially historically, meaning more potential for cancers to
develop. It's a reasonable concern, especially as corporations
get into the marijuana business. You are still inhaling smoke,
after all, and that has to be dangerous at some level.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for legalizing it, it just appears to
me that people are downplaying it's risks.
Paul
On 01/20/2014 03:21 PM, Tom Hansen wrote:
A person is FAAARRRR more likely to develop lung cancer
from inhaling cigarette smoke than from inhaling marijuana
smoke.
I do not know of ANY cases where somebody contracted
cancer as a result of exposure to cannabis.
Do you, Mr. Falen?
Those were the days . . . the bud . . . the bong . . .
and the . . .
"Shotgun"
http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/Shotgun.mp3
Seeya
'round town, Moscow, because . . .
"Moscow
Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
http://www.MoscowCares.com
Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
"There's
room at the top they are telling you still.
But
first you must learn to smile as you kill,
If
you want to be like the folks on the hill."
-
John Lennon
On Jan 20, 2014, at 2:53 PM, lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com>
wrote:
I do not have a problem with the legalization of
pot, but there is one thing I think the left is
overlooking and that is smoke.
There seems to be a major problem with cigarette
smoke. why not the same with marijuana smoke?
Roger
-----Original Message-----
From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Date: 01/19/14 15:16
Subject: [Vision2020] Pot backers all abuzz about
Super Bowl link
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Courtesy
of today's (January 19, 2014)
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Pot backers
all abuzz about Super Bowl link
WASHINGTON
- If oddsmakers are correct, the Seattle
Seahawks and Denver Broncos will win today's
National Football League conference
championship games, advancing to a truly
historic Super Bowl on Feb. 2:
The
Marijuana Bowl? A return of the Bud Bowl?
The
teams represent the biggest cities in
Colorado and Washington, the only states
that have legalized the sale of
recreational marijuana.
Shortly after those voters made their
decisions in November 2012, travel guide
Arthur Frommer said both cities should brace
for "a torrent of new tourism." Now the two
cities might face off in one of the world's
biggest sporting extravaganzas, giving the
media a fresh story hook for the next
two weeks.
Pot backers are tickled.
"It's something that those of us in the
movement have had an eye on for a long
time," said Steve Fox, who works for a
marijuana-industry law firm in Denver.
If the matchup does materialize, said
Allen St. Pierre, the executive director of
the National Organization for the Reform of
Marijuana Laws, it will feature "the two
most pro-cannabis- legalization cities in
the U.S." He jokingly suggested that the
game be renamed "The Super Oobie
Doobie Bowl."
There is a more serious side to
all this.
Since Jan. 1, when Colorado opened its
retail pot shops, it's been legal to
purchase and use the drug, at least under
state law. But it's still illegal for NFL
players who live in the state to use
marijuana because it's banned under the
league's collective bargaining agreement.
That will be true in Washington, as well,
when the state opens its own shops
this spring.
Lobbyists are pushing the NFL to stop
punishing players who fail drug tests for
smoking pot, saying the drug could help them
deal with concussions and other injuries.
And they want to call attention to the
league's cozy relationship with the alcohol
industry: Anheuser-Busch, for example,
pitches its Bud Light as the "proud sponsor
of the NFL" and once aired ads showing
Budweiser and Bud Light beer bottles
competing in a halftime "Bud Bowl"
football game.
"Hopefully there will be a break in the
beer commercials for some discussion about
marijuana laws," said Mason Tvert, spokesman
for the pro-legalization Marijuana Policy
Project in Denver.
In September, the organization put up a
48-foot-wide billboard next to Denver's
Sports Authority Field at Mile High, urging
the NFL to "stop driving players to drink"
and saying that pot represented "a safer
choice" for the athletes. And the group
launched a petition to pressure NFL
Commissioner Roger Goodell to change the
league's marijuana policy.
Fox, the marijuana industry lawyer,
pointed out that the Broncos and Seahawks
both lost key players this season for
violating the NFL drug policy, reportedly
because of marijuana use.
He said the NFL should follow the
National Hockey League, which tests only for
performance-enhancing drugs.
And he noted that the World Anti-Doping
Agency responded to more lax drug laws in
many countries last summer by loosening the
marijuana standard for Olympic athletes.
Goodell caused a stir last week during
an interview with ESPN.comwhen
he left open the possibility of the league
allowing players to use medical marijuana in
the future.
With the commissioner even talking
about marijuana during the playoffs, St.
Pierre said the public could expect to hear
plenty about pot in the next two weeks, even
if Seattle and Denver don't win their games.
"I think there will be more references
to pot going into the Super Bowl week media
hype than any previous NFL game in history,"
he said.
Comedian Jay Leno jumped in Tuesday
night during his monologue on NBC's "The
Tonight Show," saying a Denver-Seattle
matchup would give "a whole new meaning to
the term Super Bowl."
Fox and Tvert boasted that even the
visiting teams in Sunday's games - the San
Francisco 49ers will travel to Seattle,
while the New England Patriots go to Denver
- represent regions of the country where
marijuana use is allowed for
medical purposes.
"It won't be long before it's unique to
have two teams in the Super Bowl that
haven't made marijuana legal," Tvert said.
For this year, at least, it's been a
tough season for NFL teams from states where
all pot use is outlawed.
Among the losers in the playoffs this
month: the Carolina Panthers, Indianapolis
Colts, Kansas City Chiefs, Green Bay
Packers, Philadelphia Eagles, New Orleans
Saints and Cincinnati Bengals.
"If you noticed, the more
marijuana-friendly localities really kicked
butt," Fox said. "I don't know what it
really means in the grand scheme of things,
but it's a nice bit of karma if
nothing else."
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Seeya 'round town, Moscow,
because . . .
"Moscow Cares" (the most fun
you can have with your pants on)
http://www.MoscowCares.com
Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
"There's room at the top they
are telling you still.
But first you must learn to
smile as you kill,
If you want to be like the
folks on the hill."
- John Lennon
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