North Dakota Meth Symposium
The North Dakota Law Review will host Methamphetamine: Casting a Shadow Across Disciplines and Jurisdictions a one-day symposium at the UND School of Law. All lectures are free and open to the public and will be held in the Baker Court Room on the third floor of the law school.
Debate: Prohibition or Legalization of Drugs in America? -- Ethan Nadelmann vs. James Q. Wilson
Ethan Nadelmann will debate James Q. Wilson, formerly a professor at Harvard University (where Ethan was one of his students) and UCLA, currently lecturing at Pepperdine. Professor Wilson is one of the country's most influential conservative voices on criminal justice issues.
A Medical Marijuana Comedy Show ExtravaGANJA
A not to be missed comedy show featuring Rick Overton (www.RickOverton.net), Craig X from the hit show "Weeds," Greentherapy's Howard Dover and much much more.
Tickets are only $10.
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Mushrooms "4" Mohammed
Can you believe the Supreme court of the United states is considering the constitutionality of a high school principal suspending a student for posting a banner saying "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" in the street, off school property, in the path of an Olympic runner, hoping to get his message on television? If the sign had appeared in the hallways of the school during a Christmas pageant, the principal might have had a weak leg to stand on. After all, to encourage drug use on school property is tantamount to encouraging cigarettes and alcohol, but I would contend the saying does NOT encourage drug use and is just a joke, a pretty funny one, with no particular message whatsoever other than to make you think, so let's do that.
HaRdCOREhARMREdUCER About The Cannabis Scare Article In The Independent On Sunday
this is the article we talk about
The article in The Independent on Sunday is what we call
100%
Prohibitionist drug war propaganda.
The fact that more and more youngster are looking for help because of problems related to cannabis consumption is (at least partly) because of prohibition it selve. The presure on teens to go into treatment can rise enormously ones you're caught by your parents, school or the police. A lot of this youngster go low profile for a while and play the good son/daughter.
Bong Hits 4 Ever
The Washington Post has an important point:
WHAT IS a bong hit 4 Jesus? We're not sure, and we doubt anyone really knows what the phrase means -- which is one reason the Supreme Court ought not to regard it as prohibited speech.
It's true. Prohibiting something you don't understand is the height of ignorance. All attempts to interpret the statement can be dismissed as the desperate fulminations of confused people who demand arbitrary authority to shield themselves from future confusion.
Now that it's been immortalized by the very people who find it objectionable, bong-hits-for-Jesus will probably be with us for quite some time. In the interest of preventing subsequent misunderstandings, I propose that we decide what it means. I vote that we use bong-hits-for-Jesus as a dissmissive retort to anything that doesnât make sense. For example, if someone's carrying on about something you disagree with or don't understand, you'd reply "bong-hits-for-Jesus, dude."
If we succeed in making BH4J the next WWJD, the censors will surely come to regret ever complaining about it in the first place.