This year the most interesting commercials during the Super Bowl were not beer-related, rather they were the new and exciting messages from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy warning revelers against the dangers of a leafy green plant. These ads come in several flavors: smokers killing people with cars, getting pregnant, neglecting children and funding terrorism. Sorry WHONDCP, I have met a few tokers and they are too baked to get laid and too easygoing to kill people, perhaps the only thing they are guilty of is being opposed to a war with Iraq. [continues 581 words]
Students advocating marijuana legalization used an article written by George Washington University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg in the 1970s as testimony to their cause in a meeting Wednesday night. The GW group Students for a Sensible Drug Policy passed out an article Trachtenberg wrote in 1972 advocating the repeal of federal marijuana laws. The article, published in the Federal Bar Journal and co-authored by Lewis J. Paper concluded that laws prohibiting marijuana usage should be repealed. "I felt at the time and probably still feel that there is no reason to give people reason to disrespect the laws," Trachtenberg said "There is no compelling reason if the law is not enforceable." [continues 332 words]
