Mason Tvert is director of communications at MPP and oversees MPP’s media strategy and online outreach efforts out of the organization’s Denver office. Prior to taking over MPP’s communications department, he co-directed the successful campaign in support of Amendment 64, the 2012 ballot initiative to regulate marijuana like alcohol in Colorado.

Previously, Mason co-founded and directed Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation (SAFER), a Colorado-based nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the public about the relative safety of marijuana compared to alcohol. In this role, he was the driving force behind the campaigns in support of the successful Denver ballot initiatives to remove all penalties for adult marijuana possession (2005) and designate it the city’s lowest law enforcement priority (2007).

Mason is a co-author of the book, Marijuana Is Safer: So why are we driving people to drink?, and he appears frequently in the news discussing marijuana and marijuana policy. In January 2013, the Denver Post named Mason the state’s “Top Thinker” in the area of politics and government.