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...most familiar organized debate topics is "Should Congress have the power to outlaw physical desecration of the flag?" It was the first question I debated in sixth grade, and remains a presence in almost every tournament at the high school and college level. However, unlike abortion and marijuana legalization, which still provoke heated discussion, the omnipresence of the flag desecration topic provokes stupefied boredom. So I'm assuming most Harvard students, like me, cringe just a little when flag desecration becomes an issue again. This time, however, the chance that it might actually have some real application to our lives...
...what's a conscientious cop to do when California voters pass a ballot measure legalizing the cultivation and possession of marijuana for medicinal purposes? And when all it takes to prove need is the approval, written or oral, of a friendly doctor? And when not just patients with AIDS, cancer and multiple sclerosis are clamoring for the drug but also people with backaches, stress and drinking problems? One arrested planter told sheriff's deputies he was suffering from an ingrown toenail, an excuse that did not impress them. Lucy Mae Tuck, a volunteer who edits the newsletter at the Humboldt...
Though six states--Alaska, Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington--have voted to legalize medicinal marijuana, federal law still requires them to prosecute any wheelchair-bound granny smoking a bong. But they aren't doing so, and that has federal drug czar Barry McCaffrey muttering about a new "Whiskey Rebellion," the unsuccessful 1794 farmer's revolt against federal liquor taxes...
...Arcata, however, where 74% of voters approved the state's marijuana measure, Chief Brown considers his policy one of common sense. "Out of self-preservation," he says, he set up his own system. Now about 100 local residents have sat for mug shots, agreed to let Brown talk to their physicians, and walked away with a "City of Arcata Proposition 215 Identification Card." Flash it as you are toking up and you won't be arrested, unless you've got more than 10 marijuana plants--a limit imposed to distinguish users from illegal dealers...
...Mexican-American aunties used marijuana poultices for their arthritis," says Arcata Mayor Bob Ornelas, a ponytailed electrician. Ornelas boasts of running marathon races while high on the weed but insists, "I don't get stoned that much...