Billboard compares alcohol and pot

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DENVER, April 6 (UPI) -- Supporters of marijuana legalization have put up a billboard over a Denver liquor store asking if it is wrong to choose marijuana over alcohol.

The billboard is the kickoff of a campaign in support of Amendment 64, the statewide ballot initiative to regulate marijuana like alcohol, The Denver Post reported Thursday.

A young woman is featured on the billboard, accompanied by the text, "For many reasons, I prefer marijuana over alcohol. Does that make me a bad person?"

"We want people to consider why they are opposed to allowing adults to legally use the less harmful of the two substances," Betty Aldworth, advocacy director for the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, said in a statement. "We are not telling people what to think. We are simply asking them to think."