Mason Tvert
Mason Tvert
Mason Tvert is an American marijuana advocate and founder of Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation and current communications director for the Marijuana Policy Project in Colorado. He has been described as the "Don Draper of Pot" by Politico which also considers him to be one of the primary factors in the legalization of recreational use of marijuana in Colorado. At one point in his advocacy he was known to have challenged John Hickenlooper and Pete Coors to a contest that...
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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.
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