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This week , in addition to the 15 Hottest Freshmen, FM brings you a behind-the-scenes look inside Harvard Law School Professor Charles R. Nesson's '60 fight against the RIAA. Writer Christian B. Flow '10 follows the Twittering, marijuana-loving professor on his quest to protect alleged file-sharer Joel Tennenbaum, a college student who is being sued by five major record labels for downloading seven songs and sharing several others in a high school. Yeah, seven songs. Maybe you should close out of LimeWire, that new Emimem song can wait...
...September 2007, two men lit up a marijuana cigarette behind a booth in 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...
...Reefer Madness! Kudos to Joe Klein for his piece on legalizing marijuana [April 13]. The tax revenues a legal industry could generate - not just from pot but from hemp products as well - could solve major economic issues. I may have spent much of my high school years in a doobie-induced haze (mind you, I live a happily successful life now), but I do vaguely recall something from history class about the repeal of Prohibition and the subsequent taxation of liquor playing a significant role in our nation's recovery from the Great Depression. Perhaps if our leaders were willing...
...found Klein's article on legalizing marijuana very disconcerting. Marijuana has many negative aspects, including the fact that it is a gateway drug to more lethal and addictive substances like cocaine and heroin. We need stronger laws and harsher penalties for those who buy, sell or use it, as well as a continued education campaign about why smoking pot is both harmful and dangerous. Steven Glass, Oyster...
...Officers were dispatched to investigate a report of the smell of marijuana at Pennypacker Hall South. Officers searched the building for the odor with negative results...