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The Internet is abuzz over the two teams which will compete in this year’s Super Bowl: the Broncos, of Denver, Colo., and the Seahawks, of Seattle, Wash. — the first two states which, in the last election cycle, legalized the sale and use of recreational marijuana. Tongue firmly in cheek, Allen St. Pierre, executive director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, suggests renaming the football championship “The Super Oobie Doobie Bowl”. The NFL is quick to point out that players cannot partake, even if they live in or visit those two states: the drug is banned in player contracts, and both teams lost players to positive tests for pot this season. Marijuana activists point out the NFL’s hypocrisy in taking sponsorship money from alcoholic beverage producers. “Hopefully there will be a break in the beer commercials for some discussion about marijuana laws,” suggests Mason Tvert, spokesman for Denver’s Marijuana Policy Project, which recently sponsored a billboard by Mile High Stadium urging the NFL to “stop driving players to drink” — and saying pot represented “a safer choice” for athletes. (RC/Tacoma News Tribune) ...Denver isn’t called the Mile High City for nothin’.
Original Publication Date: 19 January 2014
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