Pubdate: Sat, 04 May 2002
Source: Burlington Free Press (VT)
Copyright: 2002 Burlington Free Press
Contact:  http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/632
Author:  Adam Scavone
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/pot.htm (Cannabis)

UVM'S WAR ON WEED

I hope all Vermonters, especially those in the Legislature, are 
outraged that UVM spent $90,000 to quash the innocuous and 
ineffective annual April 20 marijuana civil disobedience "event."

Is the fact that students gather once annually for the sole purpose 
of protesting the foolish laws that keep marijuana illegal unbearable 
to the administration? I make no apologies on behalf of the student 
body for smoking marijuana, any time or anywhere. I apologize, 
though, on behalf of our institution, to the parents of at least two 
Vermonters who could have had their college educations paid for had 
the administration not spent that $90,000 on creating a concert in 
order to disguise an essentially military operation that was used to 
quell a peaceful demonstration.

ADAM SCAVONE
Burlington
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