Mason Tvert Quotes (20 Quotes)

Clearly, people in the state of Colorado are fed with up laws that push people to using alcohol instead of marijuana, when it is a far more dangerous drug and causes more problems around the state.

If the elected officials in this city don't have the guts to stand up for the individuals they represent, we have no choice but to take up the fight on behalf of these individuals.

Once there is no state law, the city ordinance is what the cities and towns would go by and other places ... would have every right to keep punishing adult marijuana users if they chose to.

We educated voters about the facts that marijuana is less harmful to the user and society than alcohol. To prohibit adults from making the rational, safer choice to use marijuana is bad public policy.

The federal government, the DEA, handles just one percent of marijuana cases in this country and they would have absolutely no way of controlling the private adult use of less than one ounce in the privacy of someone's own home. This would in fact change state statutes and lead to marijuana being legal under state law.

All we want is to be equal. We want to see marijuana starting to be treated like alcohol.

If they would have used marijuana instead of alcohol, they'd still be alive.

There's no doubt that if people choose to use marijuana instead of alcohol we would not have the same number of problems.

I don't believe it had to do with problems with the search. We believe it had to do with the pressure put on the city by people who voted in this initiative.

Marijuana users do not engage in violent behavior, unlike alcohol users.

The anti-marijuana madness has got to end.

Times are changing and the policy needs to change.

The people in Denver made it very loud and very clear that they do not want adults punished simply for making the rational, safer choice to use marijuana instead of alcohol in this city.

It never kills and is never the reason behind abuse. If adults here would rather use marijuana than alcohol, why on earth would we want to stop them and push them toward drinking.

There's a libertarian streak in Colorado and a respect for people's individual rights throughout the West, so there's no reason people shouldn't vote for this.

We plan on bringing out an army of new voters in this state and mobilizing students across the state to get involved here, collecting the signatures and passing this initiative.

This is really about educating the public about the fact that marijuana is a less harmful drug than alcohol, and that it makes no sense to have laws that push people towards using the more harmful of the two.

We saw about 10 girls carried out. They weren't smoking marijuana. They were wasted (on alcohol).

There is little doubt this same individual would not have been pulled over if his car was displaying a Coors Light logo.

The whole thing on 420 is actually something we're against. I don't really see how smoking marijuana in public does anything positive. It sends the wrong message about the work that we (SAFER) are doing.