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DESCRIPTION:Local Author To Discuss Acclaimed, Controversial New Book -- Marijuana Is 
 Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink?\n\n\nWHO: Paul Armentano -- 
 local author and marijuana policy expert\nWHAT: Book discussion and signing 
 for Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink?\nWHERE: 
 Panama Red Coffee Company, 289 Mare Island Way, Vallejo\nWHEN: 5pm, 
 September 18\nCONTACT:  Jay Seaver, 707-554-2100 \n\n\nVallejo, CA: 
 Marijuana policy expert and author Paul Armentano will discuss and sign 
 copies of his new, critically acclaimed book -- Marijuana Is Safer: So Why 
 Are We Driving People to Drink? (Chelsea Green) -- at the Panama Red Coffee 
 Company (289 Mare Island Way, in the Vallejo Ferry Building) at 5pm on 
 Friday, September 18. \n\nThis event is free and open to the public.  The 
 author will be taking questions from the audience.\n\nReleased in August by 
 Chelsea Green Publishing, Marijuana Is Safer compares and contrasts the 
 relative harms and legal status of the two most popular recreational 
 substances in the world – marijuana and alcohol.  Through an objective 
 and comprehensive examination of the two drugs and the laws and social 
 practices that regulate them, the Armentano poses a simple yet rarely 
 considered question: Why do we punish adults who make the rational, safer 
 choice to use marijuana instead of alcohol?\n\nSays the author: "Expert 
 reviews by the World Health Organization, the Australian Institute of 
 Health and Welfare, and many others have each separately concluded that 
 cannabis poses far less risk to the consumer than does alcohol.  It makes 
 little sense for our society to condone, if not encourage, the use of 
 alcohol – an intoxicant that directly contributes to tens of thousands of 
 deaths annually and countless social problems – while simultaneously 
 stigmatizing and criminalizing the use of cannabis, a substance that is 
 incapable of causing lethal overdose and is associated with far fewer 
 societal costs."\n\nCritical praise for Marijuana Is Safer has come from a 
 diverse variety of political pundits and commentators including: former 
 Republican Governor of New Mexico Gary Johnson, New York Times best-selling 
 author Barbara Ehrenreich (Nickel and Dimed), former Seattle Police Chief 
 Norm Stamper, PBS television host Rick Steves, and nationally syndicated 
 columnist David Sirota.\n\nOn August 20, the book rose to #14 on 
 Amazon.com's best-sellers list.  The title was also recently selected by 
 Publishers Weekly as one of "20 fall titles from independent presses that 
 show big promise."\n\nMore information about Marijuana Is Safer is 
 available online at: http://www.marijuanaissafer.com. \n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/09/16/18622181.php
SUMMARY:Marijuana Is Safer book discussion/signing
LOCATION:Panama Red Coffee Company, 289 Mare Island Way (at the Ferry Station), 
 Vallejo. ph#: 707-554-2100 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/09/16/18622181.php
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