Could smoking pot end air rage?

A group in Denver is proposing to the FAA that allowing airline passengers to smoke marijuana will keep them calm in flight and could prevent bouts of air rage which seem to be at an all time high (no pun intended). USA Today reports that Safer Alternatives For Enjoyable Recreation, or SAFER, held a press conference outside the Denver offices of the FAA on Tuesday in an attempt to sell their idea aimed at ending incidents with irate passengers such as Elizabeth Szele who punched a JetBlue flight attendant recently. SAFER's executive director Mason Tvert said about Szele, who was drunk at the time of the incident, that her "outbursts wouldn't have happened if she'd been inhaling instead of imbibing." No surprise, Tvert describes him as "a crusader for legalizing marijuana" and feels that marijuana smoking lounges in airports across the country would make flying safer. Unfortunately for SAFER and pot-heads in the Centennial State Denver International Airport spokesman Jeff Green told the Rocky Mountain News "I can safely say we have no plans to open any marijuana lounges at (Denver International)."

On a side note, Tvert claims marijuana will add another benefit to the aviation industry. With airlines deeper in the red than ever, he makes this claim, "You've got struggling airlines, right? From what I understand, marijuana tends to lead to the munchies. (So,) if more passengers smoked marijuana before they flew and had the munchies, airlines could, you know, charge for snacks instead of for baggage." I think I went to high school with this guy

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