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...magazine about the cannabis culture. In the years that followed, many other users began to smoke communally at 4:20 p.m.Grinspoon has been one of the most prominent scientific voices for the legalization campaign.“I started out wanting to help convince America’s youth of the negative effects of marijuana. But as I soon learned, anybody that goes into a library and reads about it will see that we as a people are being grossly misled about marijuana,” Grinspoon said. “Most people associate marijuana with crime, mayhem, chromosomal damage...
...views are embedded in its telling. He denounces policies of violence on both sides, recounting stories of unwarranted arrests, tortures, and evictions of Palestinians from their homes by Israeli officials, as well as suicide bombings and the culture of revenge that many Palestinian leaders breed. He also tells of youthful idealism and particularly his early hope for a “single, secular Jewish-Arab state,” which eventually evolves into his strong faith in a two-state solution. He recounts how standing in the middle can put one at odds with both sides, describing...
...disposal, I could be devoting my time to learning about something more consequential than sports. While many of my peers at Harvard remain casual fans, most have already kicked sports down several notches on their list of priorities. But I am stuck in that wonderland of my youth, where my grandfather still brings home the New York Post every day and I, rather than explore issues of national importance like the death of Anna Nicole Smith, immediately flip the paper over and engross myself in box scores and betting lines.Although I am usually able to control my fixation, every...
...cream. Following annual tradition, hundreds of hungry Cantabrigians flocked to Ben & Jerry’s yesterday for free scoops, even though the weather was anything but ice cream-friendly. And as ice cream connoisseurs sought refuge from the April showers, their generosity helped raise money for the Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment Summer Program (BRYE). Although the ice cream was free, hungry patrons were encouraged to buy freshly made waffle cones for $1. The proceeds went to the summer program, which is affiliated with Harvard’s Phillips Brooks House Association. “BRYE does this annually with...
...definitely” vote in a primary or caucus, 61 percent said they would “definitely” vote in the general election, and three-quarters said they were registered to vote. In terms of foreign policy issues, nearly a quarter of the polled youth prioritized stabilizing Iraq, 17 percent cited genocide in Darfur, and 4 percent said they were most concerned with the “war on terrorism.” Marina Fisher ’09—the student co-chair of the IOP survey group—said that the strong youth concern...