Group wants to fight air rage with pot

Sorry, but only a stoner would come up with this one...

Sometimes you see a headline and you think it has to be a joke? Well, this was one of those headlines. A group called Safer Alternatives For Enjoyable Recreation (that's SAFER to you) says smoking pot in airports would reduce incidents of air rage. They say the current method of selling alcohol only encourages air rage and folks should try pot instead:

"Does it make sense to allow adults to use a drug that causes problems on airplanes and not allow them to use one that does not cause problems on airplanes?" asked Mason Tvert, executive director of Safer Alternatives For Enjoyable Recreation.

SAFER says that pot reduces anxiety for people who are afraid to fly and that passengers could use pot in the smoking lounges at the airport as a safer alternative to alcohol. So, what do the airports think? Well Denver International Airport spokesman Chuck Cannon replied by pretty much stating the obvious:

"Marijuana is illegal isn't it?," he said. "All the bars and restaurants are concessions and they sell what they sell. I do not know that we are going to tell them what they can sell. Alcohol is legal and tobacco is legal and marijuana is not."

To that SAFER countered that the man was (again) keeping him down:

"It just goes to show how brainwashed they are," Tvert said. "Alcohol and pills are perfectly acceptable, but they have a problem with marijuana being available in any way, shape or form. God forbid you use a drug that is proven less harmful than both of them."

Tvert then got a terrible case of the munchies, started saying "dude" a lot and then laid down to take a nap.

Oh, and he slept through his flight - but no air rage. Success!!

Group wants pot in airport lounges [Denver Post]