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...fifth, following Way’s RBI double, Cusick walked junior Sam Franklin and senior Dan Zailskas with the bases loaded, adding two more runs. Brent Suter made the two free passes hurt with an RBI single through the right side, scoring Franklin and Albright. With the hit-and-run on, freshman Kyle Larrow then grounded out to the pitcher, giving Zailskas time to score the sixth run of the inning before junior Dillon O’Neill struck out looking to end the frame...

Author: By Evan J. Zepfel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Comes From Behind and Keeps Momentum in Sweep of Penn | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

...Boston Commons. The activity was hardly unique to the occasion: the 18th annual Boston Freedom Rally was, like its 17 predecessors, a joint concert-and-protest event aimed at boosting the campaign to legalize marijuana. Nor was the action entirely spontaneous: the two men were Keith Stroup and Richard Cusick, they were, respectively, the founder of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) and the publisher of High Times Magazine, and they intended to make a statement. Taken into custody by an officer at the rally, the two men were respectful and well-behaved—quiet...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Building the Public Domain, Part II | 5/9/2009 | See Source »

...tactic was about more than just making a scene. What Stroup and Cusick had been doing behind the NORML/High Times booth was illegal: this was hardly in doubt. But by demanding a trial, Nesson and his clients were hoping to make a start on changing that—tapping the power of a little-used legal prerogative known as “jury nullification.” In old English common law, if a jury felt that a particular law was destructive to liberty, it could refuse to render a guilty verdict on the basis of that law?...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Building the Public Domain, Part II | 5/9/2009 | See Source »

...record companies for her file-sharing activities. A juror went on record after that trial calling Thomas a “liar.” (Thankfully for Thomas, a judge later threw out the trial verdict, invalidating the proceedings.) Things went something better for Cusick and Stroup, the marijuana crusaders, who were convicted by a jury in less than 30 minutes, but sentenced only to a single day in prison, which they had already served on the date of their arrest...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Building the Public Domain, Part II | 5/9/2009 | See Source »

Both co-defendants built their careers around marijuana: Cusick is associate publisher of the well-known marijuana magazine, High Times, and Stroup is the founder of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. They said that they do not believe marijuana to be a social...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Law Prof Argues Marijuana Trial | 5/14/2008 | See Source »

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