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...March 19 the Supreme Court heard the case of Joseph Frederick, an Alaska high school student who, during the 2002 Olympic torch relay, was suspended for displaying the marijuana-slang phrase BONG HITS 4 JESUS on a banner across the street from his school. The ruling should determine the extent of a school's control over messages displayed in a public setting. "I don't see what it disrupts," Justice David Souter said of the pro-cannabis banner. A ruling is expected by June...
...with the school’s ability to educate other students is tangential at best—it does not disrupt instruction in any way, shape, or form. Schools must, of course, be permitted to protect their educational purpose, but that protection has limits. If a vague reference to marijuana can be declared disruptive under the school’s policy, then these tendrils run too deep. Students spend a great deal of their time expressing diffuse or controversial views, and this level of invasion represents a threat to dialogue and stability. It also gives principals broad leeway in deciding...
...says. “So to have the chance to work with her was very, very incredible.”But for those who worry that Penn has left behind the stoned, teenaged boy demographic forever, there are several indications to the contrary.For one, although marijuana doesn’t have the leading role in “The Namesake” that it does in “Harold and Kumar,” it does make an appearance: after smoking up following his high school graduation, Gogol rushes home to find a Bengali family sitting with his parents...
...Jerry’s Half-Baked,” says Millicent M. Younger ’10. And then? “I would probably watch ‘Dazed and Confused.’” The Harvard study did not comment on the effects of marijuana-themed ice cream on pregnancy...
...Cheryl Lynn Noel, a church-going mother: Shot and killed after grabbing her legal handgun when masked intruders—a SWAT team—stormed into her bedroom in Baltimore. The justification for the assault? Police investigators had found marijuana seeds in the family’s trash...