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#10441459 - 06/02/09 03:46 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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http://www.kirotv.com/news/19634608/detail.html
Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School
Posted: 10:43 am PDT June 2, 2009
Updated: 11:23 am PDT June 2, 2009
PURDY, Wash. -- A student presenting an essay at Peninsula High School in Purdy on Tuesday morning took out a marijuana joint, lit it, and began smoking it, police said.
According to Pierce County sheriff's detective Ed Troyer, the student smoked the joint during his essay supporting the legalization of marijuana.
He then finished his essay, sat down, finished smoking the joint and then ate the end after it was fully smoked.
The teacher of the class contacted the school resources officer, a Pierce County sheriff's deputy, who found a small residual amount of marijuana on the student, Troyer said.
The student, a 17-year-old junior with a 3.7 grade-point average, was arrested on charges of possession of marijuana by Pierce County deputies and booked into Remann Hall in Tacoma.
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 Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: Ythan]
#10441471 - 06/02/09 03:48 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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lmao. wow. now hes going to pay a fine.
i would have done the same thing if i lived in washington or anywhere else with lenient marijuana laws.
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: Ythan]
#10441473 - 06/02/09 03:49 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Awesome, but not really the best method to go about it...
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: PilzeEssen]
#10441479 - 06/02/09 03:49 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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He probably ate it thinking that he didn't have any more on him. 
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: Dug a Sprogie]
#10441580 - 06/02/09 04:05 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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He then finished his essay, sat down, finished smoking the joint and then ate the end after it was fully smoked.
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: Coaster]
#10441626 - 06/02/09 04:14 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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i wish i went to school with that kid.
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: clover606]
#10441662 - 06/02/09 04:18 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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I bet everyone paid damn good attention to his essay. I hope it was very well written and highly informative. This kid owns. I wonder if everyone just watched in awe as he smoked the joint after he sat down.
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: clover606]
#10441667 - 06/02/09 04:19 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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This kid rules!
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: Newfound_wonder]
#10441677 - 06/02/09 04:21 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Wonder how cool his parents are?
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: ComputerTekGuy]
#10441716 - 06/02/09 04:28 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Not the best way to go about it I agree, but the kid has a 3.7, he's not exactly a failure or drop out. This also could have been handled by the principal and maybe the resource officer, i doubt they had to arrest him for what little bit he had left.
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: ComputerTekGuy]
#10441728 - 06/02/09 04:30 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Id love to chill with that kid haha, but seriously, as cool as that is, why would you do something so stupid? I wonder if he expected to get away with it...
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: erikm]
#10441800 - 06/02/09 04:44 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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He knew he wasn't going to get away with it. He was trying to make a statement. I would love to shake this guy's hand and congratulate him on having a huge set of balls. If anything more people should do this kind of thing.
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: Sticky Green]
#10441823 - 06/02/09 04:48 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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bravo, bravo. i hope the school feels good about wasting its resources to find a residual amount of weed on the kid. smart kid.
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: erikm]
#10441884 - 06/02/09 04:57 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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I support the sentiment but, seriously, what other outcome did he think was going to happen?
Kinda retarded.
It's like my neighbors: bunch of college kids that smoke pot out in the front yard on a busy street, where we have a cop living across the street, another one down the street and have had two grow-op busts (600+ plants) within a 300 meter radius in the past 9 months.
I'm very much pro-legalisation but that doesn't change the current legal status and having such an utter lack of discretion is almost begging to be arrested.
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: buddhabadger]
#10442035 - 06/02/09 05:25 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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ahahah,
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: buddhabadger]
#10442039 - 06/02/09 05:26 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Wow, that kid is badass! 
He figured he would get in trouble sure, but I bet he didn't think they where going to arrest him seeing as he had nothing on him. "Residue" o noez!!!! Run this kid has "Residue"! There is pretty much residue everywhere on everyone of everything! What amount are they going to book him for? .00000001 grams?
Hey at least he's 17, and if I'm not mistaken this will get wiped off his record when he turns 18?
He made such a fucking great point, if the teachers, parents, staff, and police aren't ignorant (which they probably are) then they will see why arresting a 3.7 GPA kid who hurt no one, as well as arresting millions of other decent and even upstanding citizens is a complete waste of time and effort. Bravo!
This kid should definitely join the Shroomery (when he turns 18 of course).
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: Nymphaea]
#10442105 - 06/02/09 05:34 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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kids got some balls.
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: timekiller]
#10442263 - 06/02/09 05:55 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Where was the residue found? I don't understand...
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: neopet nub]
#10442360 - 06/02/09 06:04 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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yo, im sorry... hes a fukin G...lol 
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: SyntheticSkies]
#10442432 - 06/02/09 06:13 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Haha this kid is the man, too bad he got arrested but it will be a great story
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: neopet nub]
#10442460 - 06/02/09 06:16 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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He deserves a medal, if they gave out medals for that sort of thing.
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: neopet nub]
#10442502 - 06/02/09 06:22 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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that kid has balls
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: timekiller]
#10442865 - 06/02/09 07:16 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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.makes me wanna do something cool while high...
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: Ythan]
#10442898 - 06/02/09 07:21 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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this kid goes to my school. he is a good friend of mine, i roast bowls with him all the time. It was probably the the coolest thing i have ever seen, reminds me of "rosa Parks" His speech was nothing short of amazing he worked hard on it, oh and he's got some sick dreads:) It was a fatty too:)
ask if you got any questions.
Just keep pushin for legalizing:)
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: neopet nub]
#10442913 - 06/02/09 07:22 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Did no one else in class ask for a hit????
That thing would've been smoked up at my old high school. Everyone would've gotten like one hit and been pissed off.
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: neopet nub]
#10443015 - 06/02/09 07:36 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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its been said, but I'll say it again: this kid's got the cohones.
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: alex59195]
#10443310 - 06/02/09 08:18 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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this kid goes to my school. he is a good friend of mine, i roast bowls with him all the time. It was probably the the coolest thing i have ever seen, reminds me of "rosa Parks" His speech was nothing short of amazing he worked hard on it, oh and he's got some sick dreads:) It was a fatty too:)
ask if you got any questions.
Just keep pushin for legalizing:)
Post the essay.
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: neopet nub]
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: AnarchyXx420xX]
#10444049 - 06/02/09 10:19 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Ha, I really want to hear his essay, but I have heard all of the pro-legalization points sooo much
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: Elixier]
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Elixier said:
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alex59195 said:
this kid goes to my school. he is a good friend of mine, i roast bowls with him all the time. It was probably the the coolest thing i have ever seen, reminds me of "rosa Parks" His speech was nothing short of amazing he worked hard on it, oh and he's got some sick dreads:) It was a fatty too:)
ask if you got any questions.
Just keep pushin for legalizing:)
Post the essay.
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Persuasive essay
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Legalize Marijuana
Can I see a show of hands how many people here have ever smoked Cannabis sativa, commonly known as marijuana? I see none of you raised your hand. Well obviously no one would want to admit to a criminal activity in front of their teacher. But why is it that smoking pot is so taboo in our society? After all numerous famous intellectuals support marijuana. Al Gore is considered by many to be the leading figure in climate change awareness and environmental preservation. But few people know that Al Gore also supports the legalization of marijuana. The famed German philosopher Freidrich Nietzche once said, “If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure one is to eat hashish”. The founding father of our nation George Washington, said, “Make the most of the Indian hemp seed, and sow it everywhere!” Marijuana is one of the safest medicinal substances on the planet and is supported by many acclaimed celebrity role models. Famous Hollywood actor Johnny Depp says, “I’m not a big pothead or anything like that… but weed is much, much less dangerous than alcohol”. Other well known supporters of marijuana include Snoop Dogg, all of the Marley family, Niel Young, Willie Nelson, Michael Phelps, Chris Farley, Al Gore, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Nietzche, Barack Obama, John Adams, James Madison, JFK, and of course myself. A total of 11 United States presidents either grew, smoked, or supported the legalization of Marijuana. With the support of some of the greatest thinkers and world leaders of all time it’s a wonder that marijuana is still illegal. “Government ties is really why the government lies” – Immortal Technique. Common Misconceptions about marijuana are set about by high end government officials who think only of themselves and own their prosperity. For instance few people know the history of weed and the means by which it was criminalized.
Most of you have probably seen “Reefer Madness”, the ridiculous propaganda film set about by the U.S. government to discourage the use of marijuana. The movie debuted in 1936 making arbitrary claims, calling Cannabis “The devils weed”, and stating that weed is more dangerous that cocaine or opium. This was the outlook of the government at the turn of the century, but in fact pot was smoked as early as 2700 BC, in China. In 500 AD marijuana spread to Europe and Africa where it was cultivated and smoked for its medicinal qualities. By 1545 marijuana had been introduced to the New World where it was grown as a cash crop alongside tobacco and cotton. Sold in bars throughout the Americas pot was seen as tobaccos little brother. It is reported that several of our founding fathers including Benjamin Franklin and George Washington smoked ganja out of water hookahs with Turkish emissaries shortly after the revolutionary war. After this experience both Franklin and Washington began to grow weed for themselves. At the turn of the 20th century marijuana began to gain popularity and by the 1920’s was the drug of choice for America’s youth. Historians say this popularity is what led to its prohibition. But history itself tells a different story. Whenever something be-it and idea, substance, or social behavior, becomes popular, American companies brand and market it for all it’s worth. Take for example punk rock which originally was a counterculture but through marketing was assimilated into mainstream society. So why is it that the same fate was not suffered by marijuana, why was it made illegal?
In 1937 the first official action was taken against weed, the Marihuana Tax Act. The act itself did not criminalize the possession of cannabis but levied a tax on anyone dealing the substance. This didn’t just mean the buds anything with hemp or hemp oil in it was essentially taxed out of business. A legitimate dealer was required to have a tax stamp but no stamps were ever printed. These over elaborate regulations prevented marijuana from being a profitable source of income. In reference to the International Opium Convention of 1928 Cannabis sativa was considered a drug and all state governments had some kind of laws against its consumption. Today it is generally accepted that these hearings included incorrect, excessive, and unfounded arguments. The Marijuana Tax Act was introduced to the U.S. congress by “Drug Czar” Harry Anslinger, a man who had no sense of morals and may have had NPD (narcissistic personality disorder), not to mention his pig faced features. Anslinger is where the conspiracy starts. 1937, the year the tax act was passed, was coincidentally the same year that the Decorticater Machine was invented, with this new technology the hemp industry would have been able to take over competing industries virtually overnight. “Popular Mechanics” predicted that hemp would be America’s first billion dollar crop. William Hearst, a corporate business owner, possessed enormous acreage of forest. His land and paper making company would have lost tremendous value and eventually gone bankrupt had the tax act not been passed. Hearst reportedly had strong influence in Congress and his interest in preventing hemp production is easily explained. DuPont, a chemical company that was involved in other industries, also had a hand in the conspiracy. At the time of the Marihuana Tax Act DuPont was patenting a new acid process for producing wood pulp based paper. With the boom of the hemp industry this invention would have been useless. DuPont was also in the railroad car industry. According to their own records wood pulp products accounted for 80% of all DuPont’s railroad car loadings for the 50 years prior to 1937. 80% of all their profits would have been lost with a hemp takeover. Two years earlier, in 1935, DuPont developed nylon, a substitute for hemp rope. Nylon was equal in strength and quality but with the Decorticater Machine would not have been cost effective when sold alongside hemp. Even with hemp eliminated nylon was not extremely profitable. The year after the tax was passed DuPont came out with rayon, a very cost effective fiber that would not have been able to compete with the strength and durability of hemp. Harry Anslinger, the man who proposed the Marihuana Tax Act, was also a CEO of DuPont, and would have stood to loose millions had marijuana not been driven out of business. Anslinger, who was married to Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon’s niece, was appointed to lead the FBN (Federal Bureau of Narcotics). It’s widely believed that his relationship with Mellon is what earned him the promotion. Harry Anslinger’s first action as commissioner was to pass the Marijuana Tax Act. Reasoning behind Anslinger, Hearst, and DuPont was for no moral or medical issues. They fought to criminalize marijuana to save their business and to save money. It’s simply another example of capitalist pigs taking advantage of their power and manipulating the law for personal gain.
Marijuana continued to be present in society throughout the 40’s and 50’s. During this time it came to be associated with the rise of rock n’ roll. The hippi movement of the 1960’s and 70’s was largely involved in experimental drug use. Artists such as The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix experimented with drugs like acid and heroin. Their fans followed suit but Mary Jane remained America’s drug of choice. The increased support of the environmentalist movement also supported the use of weed. Hemp can be made into paper that is equivalent to paper made from trees, without destroying the rainforests. After all the first, third and final drafts of the Declaration of Independence were all written on hemp paper. At anti-Vietnam protests many people could be seen smoking pot. This fueled the idea that marijuana should be legal, and in the late 60’s the first serious calls for legalization were made.
In 1975 weed supporters around the United States celebrated a victory as Alaska decriminalized the use and possession of small amounts of Cannabis. Until, in 1990, residents voted to recriminalize the substance. During those 15 years Alaska prospered and its economy was the highest it had been in years. Calling it a “dangerous experiment” the DEA’s stated reason for the recriminalization was that “teenagers used marijuana at twice the national average”. I think it’s pretty obvious that when a substance is legalized it will be used more than when it was illegal. Had we kept the same policy throughout history alcohol should have been recriminalized shortly after the repealing of the 18th amendment due to an increase in alcohol consumption. Several other countries have attempted various forms of legalizing drugs, in the Netherlands marijuana is illegal but under certain restrictions its consumption is allowed. The coffee shops of Amsterdam are renowned worldwide as a pot-smokers Mecca. Coffee shops are allowed to sell under 5 grams of marijuana as long as it is smoked on the premises. One of the opposition’s most acclaimed arguments is that legalizing marijuana will lead to an increase in crime rates. The only way to prove this theory is through real life experience. The only domestic experience we have with legalized pot was in Alaska in the 70’s and 80’s. Government analysis showed that there was no change in the crime rate for these years. All other claims about the marijuana-crime correlation are mere speculation. The fact is that Amsterdam has a lower crime rate than any major U.S. city. One could argue that the Alaskan experiment actually benefited the crime rate. As a whole, the national crime rate went up from 1975 to 1990, while Alaska’s remained the same.
Other Cannabis antagonists look to Switzerland’s Needle Park experiment to justify marijuana’s legal status. People in Needle Park were allowed to openly purchase and use drugs without police intervention. The idea was to give addicts a “clean and safe” environment to inject heroin. To compare this with legalizing marijuana is absolutely absurd. First, in terms of classification marijuana and heroin are completely different. Heroin is a level five highly addictive drug that causes long term brain damage as well as damage to the central nervous system. A heroin addict will experience collapsed veins, infection of the heart lining, abscesses, and liver disease. Not to mention second hand use of needles often leads to full blown accounts of AIDS. Marijuana on the other hand has its own category and no proven health detriments. The results of Needle Park cannot be compared to those of legalizing marijuana.
Your parents have probably told you that smoking pot causes lung cancer and brain damage. Unfortunately they were probably teenagers in the 70’s and smoked pot themselves so their very objection to weed is extremely hypocritical. The U.S. government provides facts and statistics that seem to demonstrate the pernicious nature of marijuana. Let’s take a look at the so called facts that the DEA claims are results of the habitual smoking of Cannabis sativa. First, and I quote, “Marijuana is an addictive drug”. That my friends is an outright lie. All clinical studies including those conducted by the government have concluded that marijuana contains no addictive properties. A person can become chemically dependent on the drug but that is radically different than an addiction. Another study regulated by the government studied 182 “random” fatal truck accidents. It just so happened that in these “random” accidents marijuana was present in as many of the drivers as alcohol. The National Transportation Safety Board then determined that marijuana is just as dangerous as alcohol while driving. The reasoning behind this argument has more than several flaws. First of all marijuana can stay in a persons system for more than 2 weeks, there is no way to tell that the drivers were high at the time of their accidents. Now I’m not an expert but I know that 182 is not a large enough number to be considered reliable research. To study 182 of 5 ¼ million accidents, .0034%, and make apocryphal claims based on that research shows ineptitude beyond that of any man disposed to devout his life to a hierarchy of pious infidels who understand nothing of the nature and complexity of life.
Other major concerns of consuming marijuana are lung and brain damage, as well as memory loss. According to the UCLA School of Medicine “marijuana does not impair long term memory”. Weed can cause short term memory loss but only while under the influence, the same can be said for alcohol and many over the counter sleeping medications. Brain damage that does occur is not because of any chemical property in ganja, but because the brain is deprived of oxygen for so long that brain cells are killed. For any self acclaimed pot smoker that’s an easy fix, just don’t hold your hits in for so long. One of the studies that is referred to the most was performed on monkeys in which they suffered severe brain damage. It was only until recently in careful review of the study that we discovered that the monkeys were breathing pure THC for over a minute, that lack of oxygen is what killed the brain cells, not the marijuana. The other substantial health concern is over lung function. Also according to the UCLA School of Medicine “neither the continuing nor intermittent marijuana smokers exhibited any significantly different rates of lung function as compared to those individuals who never smoked marijuana”. The study was conducted on 243 pot smokers over an 8 year period. Another of the governments’ critical expostulations against legalizing marijuana is that pharmaceutical companies have developed a synthetic THC pill called Marinol. But Marinol is substantially different than marijuana. First, it’s not real THC; there is not one part of the Cannabis sativa plant in Marinol. It’s a bunch of chemicals that some scientist mixes up in a lab. Second Marinol is only available through prescription, so it’s incontrovertibly not the same as legalizing marijuana. Not only is it very hard to obtain a prescription, the requirements exclude nearly everyone. You must either be a cancer patient who underwent chemotherapy or be an AIDS patient who has appetite loss. Both diseases have no cure and are generally fatal. So the government won’t let you take Marinol unless you have a virtual death sentence. If I have a malignant disease I’m not going to take the time to get a government prescription, I’m going to smoke the real thing. So please don’t feed me spurious claims that legal marijuana already exists.
Now that I have addressed the supposed health detriments let’s take a look at the medical benefits of Cannabis. As mentioned above marijuana has been infallibly proven to relieve the vomiting and nausea that come with chemotherapy. Many cancer patients have said that marijuana was the best treatment for their symptoms. I interviewed a cancer patient who has miraculously over come the disease, for privacy reasons I won’t reveal their name but when asked about the effects of marijuana the interviewee said, “I would not have lived if I didn’t smoke lots of marijuana”. Isn’t it interesting that cancer, one of the world’s deadliest, incurable diseases, is treated with marijuana, an illegal drug? Marijuana is also used for treating multiple sclerosis and several mood disorders. After smoking small amounts of marijuana patients are said to be relaxed and stress free. Unlike alcohol which is a depressant, Cannabis can be used to treat low level depression. Most depression is caused by stress; smoking pot relieves stress and thus relieves depression. Glaucoma is yet another disease that smoking weed will treat. Glaucoma is an optical disease that leads to permanent damage of the optic nerve endings and resultant visual fields, which can ultimately progress to blindness. Glaucoma is the leading cause of blindness in the world and doctors predict that this number will increase as longevity also increases. Symptoms of glaucoma include intraocular pressure, patches of vision loss, headaches, and pain behind the eyeball. Despite making the eyes red marijuana actually lowers intraocular pressure and can prevent as well as cure Glaucoma all together. As you can see marijuana has copious medical uses and little to no medical handicaps. For it to illegal while tobacco and alcohol are legal is absolute madness.
Like any substance marijuana can be abused, but it is impossible to overdose on. The most common problem associated with marijuana abuse is lethargic behavior, but does not cause serious health or social concerns. Overuse of alcohol will result in an inability to walk, stand, or even death, whereas overuse of weed will simply put a person to sleep. 40% of all fatal car accidents are caused by alcohol while no car accidents ever have been directly caused by marijuana. Alcohol induces violent behavior and is often attributed to wife beating and other violent behaviors. Someone under the influence of alcohol will experience fits if rage which has often led to their own demise or the death of others, while someone who got high from marijuana will stroll around pleasantly with a smile on their face in search of the nearest McDonald’s. It is as the iconoclast Bob Marley once said, “Herb is the healing of the nation, alcohol is the destruction”. Cigarettes are another legal substance that are far more dangerous than some good sensimilla. Smoking cigarettes is the leading cause of lung cancer in America. Tobacco cigarettes are filled with harmful chemicals such as nicotine, rat poison, formaldehyde, ammonia, and arsenic. Both cigarettes and alcohol are immensely addictive phenomenon’s that lead to very serious health problems, predominantly cancer, and ultimately death. Marijuana is considered by many to be a dangerous substance but in reality many of our legal drugs are far more portentous.
Annual American Deaths Caused by Drugs
Tobacco…………….. 400,000
Alcohol……………… 100,000
All legal drugs………. 20,000
All illegal drugs…….. 15,000
Caffeine…………….. 2,000
Aspirin……………… 500
Marijuana…………… 0
In all of recorded history going back as far as 2700 BC there has never been one single human death attributed to a health problem caused by marijuana.
Not only is marijuana a safe drug with medical benefits but it could rapidly stimulate our failing economy. At its current rate of production legal marijuana generates 35.8 billion dollars per year. Profits from marijuana exceed that of corn and wheat combined. And that’s just the legal margins. Revenue from illegal domestic marijuana is speculated at around 60 billion dollars a year. That’s a total of 95.8 billion dollars each year excluding imports. Marijuana is considered by profuse amounts of economists to already be our nation’s number one cash crop. It’s already the number 1 cash crop in 12 states including California, Alaska, and Hawaii. In Washington weed is second only to apples. In 30 other states ganja is among the top three on the list of cash crops. As Thomas Jefferson said, “Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth and protection of the country”. George Washington himself predicted that hemp would be our most valuable product. Economists estimate that if marijuana were legalized annual tax returns would be 6.2 billion dollars. That’s over 6 billion dollars in the hands of the federal government rather than in the hands of so called drug criminals. This money could be spent on combating the flow of hard, more serpentine drugs onto our streets.
If the fact that legalizing marijuana will engender enormous sums of money isn’t enough for some skeptics let’s take a look at the money that it will save. Approximately 7.7 billion dollars is spent annually on law enforcement to traverse marijuana consumption. Legalizing marijuana would eliminate 100% of these costs. Another taxpayer expense that would be emphatically reduced is prison disbursements. New FBI statistics show that one marijuana smoker is arrested every 45 seconds, by the end of my speech more than 20 people will have been incarcerated on marijuana related offenses. Since 1990 5.9 million innocent Americans have been arrested on Cannabis charges, a number greater than the population of Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming combined. 88% of all people in jail, a staggering 2 million, are there due to marijuana offenses. In the case that marijuana is legalized that number will be reduced to 440,000 people, a prodigious decline. The deprivation of operating prisons would also deteriorate dramatically. The cost of operating prisons comes directly out of taxpayers pockets. Currently a 40 billion dollar per year expenditure would be cut back to 8.8 billion dollars, still a gargantuan amount but much, much less than what it was. With this amount of savings and profits I find it amazing that our capitalist society hasn’t already demanded the legalization of pot.
Simply selling the buds is not the only way to make money off the Cannabis sativa plant. Hemp fibers from the stalks have countless other uses. An entire hemp based industry will be created. Oil extracted from the seeds was used to lubricate gears and mechanisms in many of the original cars including Henry Ford’s Model T. Hemp fiber, renown for its strength, has long been used to test the durability of other fibers. When George Bush Sr. was forced to eject from his F-50 over Vietnam, the parachute that saved his life was made from 100% hemp fiber. Hemp can be made into rope, clothing, and paper. More important than the products made will be the jobs procreated by this industry. The current unemployment rate is 8.9% as of April 2009. 8.9% sounds like a small number out of 100 but 8.9% translates to over 13.7 million people without a job. I talked about tax deficits earlier but how about the decrease in taxes if all 13.7million people got off welfare and started working in the pot industry. Though legalizing marijuana won’t create all 13.7 million jobs necessary it will create some. That’s a step in the right direction to resurrect our falling economy.
A common misconception is that smoking sensimilla makes a person this lazy, unexcited, useless, crippling abrasion to society. That’s not true at all. Like most Americans, people who smoke pot pay taxes, love and support their families, and work hard to make a better life for their children. Suddenly they are arrested, jailed, and treated like criminals solely because they choose to relax in a way that is safer than tobacco or alcohol. State agencies frequently step in and declare children of marijuana smokers to be “in danger”, and many children are placed into foster homes as a result. This causes enormous pain, suffering, and financial hardship for millions of honest American families. It also engenders distrust and disrespect for the law and criminal justice system overall. If the children of marijuana smokers are in danger than the children of cigarette smokers and alcoholics are in a situation far more perilous. Responsible pot smokers present no threat or danger to America and there is no reason to treat them as criminals.
Many people also believe that marijuana is a gateway drug and will lead to other more dangerous drugs. It’s true that most people who do hard drugs didn’t immediately start out snorting cocaine or shooting heroin, but smoking pot every now and then doesn’t condemn you to be some cracked out heroin feign. As it stands right now only a small portion of sensi smokers go on to harder drugs and I’m sure that number will go down if marijuana is legalized. If kids could run down to the gas station and pick up some weed their interest in other drugs would be diminished. The only way that pot could be considered a gateway drug is if it is sold alongside hard drugs. True some pot dealers sell harder stuff but legalizing marijuana completely negates that arguement. If marijuana were legal there would be no need for side street dealers who might have hard drugs on them, it could be sold in any convenience store across the country. I know for a fact that teenagers would much rather get high legally than break the law to do so. The problem is legal highs aren’t readily available, the closest you can get is with cigarettes which not only taste disgusting but are extremely deleterious to your health and the health of others. Implying that smoking weed always leads to harder drugs is like saying that anyone who has ever stolen something will go on to armed piracy of oil tankers. The Somalians that hijacked those tankers probably did steal in their youth but that doesn’t mean everyone who steals will end up like them. Marijuana as a gateway drug is a false implication and cannot be used in a serious discussion about legalizing marijuana. Many people also insinuate that marijuana leads people to a life of crime. The only way to test this theory is to study the results when pot is legal. Amsterdam, where marijuana is legal, has a lower crime rate than any major U.S. city. I think that soundly disproves that theory and clearly shows that smoking marijuana is not a gateway to anything illegal.
I have provided you with information, facts and statistical evidence that all point towards the legalization of marijuana. But the truth is it doesn’t matter what I say until you, the people, stand up and besiege the government to re-address the litigation of marijuana. But I’m sure there are many of you thinking, “Well that’s a great speech in all but I don’t smoke pot so why should I care if it’s legal or not?” So I have come up with several reasons why everyone should support the legalizing of marijuana. If you’re politically left wing stick it to the corporal business owners who made it illegal in the first place. If your right wing, marijuana is our number 1 cash crop, legalized we can make even more money than we are now. If your Christian or adhere to the Bible, Genesis 1:29 “And God said, behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth”, according to the Bible it’s your god given right to grow and consume any plant on this earth, including marijuana. If you’re an environmentalist or at least care about the fate of our planet, you can save the 4 billion trees that are cut down every year to make paper. I assure you hemp paper is a fine substitute. Everyone should support legalizing marijuana and everyone here now understands why. The biggest problem is that people are more inclined to suffer the sufferable that to rectify changes in their lives. But with growing support the Cannabis sativa predicament will soon be rectified and the world as a whole will be a better place, in the words of Bob Marley, “Legalize it, don’t criticize it”.
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: AnarchyXx420xX]
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something is fishy about this... I bet he got arrested with nothing on him. If he was smart enough to eat the joint, I'm sure he wouldn't keep anything else on him!
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: neopet nub]
#10444519 - 06/02/09 11:48 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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This kid is now more popular than Jesus! I nominate this young man to carry out the commencement speech at his graduation ceremony.
ROCK ON DUDE!!!
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: ragefanjr]
#10444554 - 06/02/09 11:56 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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cant just violate FIRE Laws to get Weed legalized...
Smoking indoors creates a possible hazard to all.. not just marijuana , but smoking in general..
im all for over stepping the boundaries but not when it endangers others..
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: orison319]
#10444699 - 06/03/09 12:21 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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cant just violate FIRE Laws to get Weed legalized...
Smoking indoors creates a possible hazard to all.. not just marijuana , but smoking in general..
im all for over stepping the boundaries but not when it endangers others..
Your right it did seem like plenty of people were in direct physical danger.
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: neopet nub]
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Agreed that kid has some serious balls. Wish I would've done that when I was in school. And that is a sweet speech!!
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: Country1]
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orison319 said:
cant just violate FIRE Laws to get Weed legalized...
Smoking indoors creates a possible hazard to all.. not just marijuana , but smoking in general..
im all for over stepping the boundaries but not when it endangers others..
Your right it did seem like plenty of people were in direct physical danger.
 i know thats how it sounds (sorry).. its more likely they would charge him fire code violation. Better than a drug charge, There is no evidence anyways. I worked in a hospital for years and when the smoking laws went into effect I was very lax on them. Later realized their right and smoking shouldnt be allowed around people that dont smoke..
We are really not going to get marijuana legal this ways, Tobacco smokers feel like they have rights to blow smoke around others, But Marijuana Smokers should Respect others. Isnt that what the great bud teaches us (respect),, Or is all just to get fucked up and high on the shit?
Omg this soundd so ghey..
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: neopet nub]
#10445214 - 06/03/09 01:50 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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His essay didn't convince the teacher.
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: neopet nub]
#10445431 - 06/03/09 02:32 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Smoking pot and gettin good grades. Take that anti marijuana fuckers!
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: Newfound_wonder]
#10445810 - 06/03/09 04:41 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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This kid rules!
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: oxalic32]
#10446011 - 06/03/09 06:53 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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You know if he passed it the teacher wouldn't have reported him.
Damn that kid has balls, what a martyr
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: neopet nub]
#10446255 - 06/03/09 09:24 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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This kid is a legend. I wish I would have seen the speech.
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Where was the residue found? I don't understand...
Probly a small flake of weed that fell out of the joint in his pocket or something like that.
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: RobMarley420]
#10446396 - 06/03/09 10:25 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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I wish I would have seen the speech.
alex posted the speech up above.
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: FurrowedBrow]
#10446541 - 06/03/09 11:16 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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He said Obama supports marijuana, that's not a fact.
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: Prof. Astro]
#10446710 - 06/03/09 12:16 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Anyone calling this dumb because he knew he would get arrested... this is civil disobedience, that's kind of the point.
I congratulate this kid.
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: Prof. Astro]
#10446743 - 06/03/09 12:29 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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So a kid smokes a jay, nothing bad happens...so, lets arrest him!
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He said Obama supports marijuana, that's not a fact.
Yeah, there are a few holes in his speech (such as some of the heroin information and some of his refutations of "facts") but his speech was still great and mostly accurate. It also refreshed some of my memory of the early history of prohibition, which was nice.
LEGALIZE IT!
And I know it has been said, but this kid has balls.
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: weephar]
#10446899 - 06/03/09 01:16 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Saw this on the local news last night. I hope the mainstream media picks up the story. This was a huge moment for pro-marijuana advocates. One step closer to removing the taboo.
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: caphillkid]
#10447335 - 06/03/09 02:38 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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I find the details of this article hard to believe for some reason.
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: BrewersFan]
#10447649 - 06/03/09 03:23 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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I find the details of this article hard to believe for some reason.
how so?
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: AnarchyXx420xX]
#10447965 - 06/03/09 04:24 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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I thought we were all supporters of the responsible use of marijuana. I can't belive you all are encouraging him. His brain isn't even mature yet. Smoked pot is a drug not an herb and it shouldn't be given to children. I think it is great that he is researching it and finding that it has it's uses, but smoking it in class in High School. What a dick! His parents should be put into a juvenile school. IMO
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: lipa]
#10448106 - 06/03/09 04:52 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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I thought we were all supporters of the responsible use of marijuana. I can't belive you all are encouraging him. His brain isn't even mature yet. Smoked pot is a drug not an herb and it shouldn't be given to children. I think it is great that he is researching it and finding that it has it's uses, but smoking it in class in High School. What a dick! His parents should be put into a juvenile school. IMO
Lipa
While yes, I do find responsible use encouraging and would like it to be 18+, I started smoking when I was 16... It didn't do much to me in the way of damaging my life or anything. In europe, you can drink at 16 and 17 in many countries. If you want people to be outraged that he smoked at 17, but not when he smokes at 18, I think you might be stretching a little.
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: supernovasky]
#10448189 - 06/03/09 05:03 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Probably would have been much more effective if he took his 3.7 GPA to college, entered law school became a lawyer and worked from inside to change the laws.
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: badchad]
#10448418 - 06/03/09 05:43 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Probably would have been much more effective if he took his 3.7 GPA to college, entered law school became a lawyer and worked from inside to change the laws.
There's nothing to say that he won't. He did something for the cause from where he was at in his life. Mad props to this kid.
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: badchad]
#10448752 - 06/03/09 06:46 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Probably would have been much more effective if he took his 3.7 GPA to college, entered law school became a lawyer and worked from inside to change the laws.
I hope colleges will look at this as a good thing once weed is legalized in a couple months. He is one of the youngest freedom fighters 
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: neopet nub]
#10449418 - 06/03/09 08:50 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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I just find it hard to believe that a teacher who contacted the school cop wouldn't have done so immediately. The article suggests that the teacher allowed him to smoke through his essay and then finish it without saying a word before narcing. Doesn't make sense to me.
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: alex59195]
#10450111 - 06/03/09 10:45 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Post the essay.
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Does he know that you're putting his name out there like that?
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: BrewersFan]
#10450872 - 06/04/09 12:55 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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This kid has balls of steel. Props to him.
Think of HOW YOU must really feel to write a whole speech to TEACH the world about how the herb is a tool, an aid, not a harmful substance...
And to actually pull a joint out in class and smoke it and everyone just watch you, no one stopping you, they just see you and they are either thinking
WOW this kid is a dumbass, or they see him as a heroic... I see the latter...
He did a good job... 
So he's in Washington? Is it decrim there? I would hope so, because juvie aint worth it.. 
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: feifen]
#10452262 - 06/04/09 07:55 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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feifen said:
This kid has balls of steel. Props to him.
Think of HOW YOU must really feel to write a whole speech to TEACH the world about how the herb is a tool, an aid, not a harmful substance...
And to actually pull a joint out in class and smoke it and everyone just watch you, no one stopping you, they just see you and they are either thinking
WOW this kid is a dumbass, or they see him as a heroic... I see the latter...
He did a good job...
So he's in Washington? Is it decrim there? I would hope so, because juvie aint worth it..
At worst, he would get a fine...Unless they try to make an example out of him
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: BrewersFan]
#10452696 - 06/04/09 11:08 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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I just find it hard to believe that a teacher who contacted the school cop wouldn't have done so immediately. The article suggests that the teacher allowed him to smoke through his essay and then finish it without saying a word before narcing. Doesn't make sense to me.
Yea, I was thinking the same thing. Maybe the teacher agrees with the essay but for the sake of his or her job had to narc, but figured letting the kid smoke wouldn't cause any real damage to anyone and might help the cause. I don't know, I am just speculating.
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: weephar]
#10453767 - 06/04/09 03:11 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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This kid definitely deserves a medal!
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: BrewersFan]
#10454144 - 06/04/09 04:00 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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BrewersFan said:
I just find it hard to believe that a teacher who contacted the school cop wouldn't have done so immediately. The article suggests that the teacher allowed him to smoke through his essay and then finish it without saying a word before narcing. Doesn't make sense to me.
Hmm good point better get CSI miami on the case...
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: TacticalBongRip]
#10454647 - 06/04/09 05:14 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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I wonder if he got an "A". I mean he used props and everything.
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: psilocybin_qualm]
#10458608 - 06/05/09 09:41 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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A teacher couldn't blatantly ignore such a thing, they would be fired on the spot when (not if) the word got out.
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: Ythan]
#10463766 - 06/07/09 12:59 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Teen accepts penalty for marijuana speech
June 6, 2009 - The News Tribune
Ian Barry says he wasn’t trying to be a martyr when he lit a marijuana joint this week at Peninsula High School in Gig Harbor, nor was he trying to pull a stunt.
Simply put, the 17-year-old junior wanted to drive home the message of his persuasive essay: Marijuana doesn’t deserve its negative stigma and should be legalized.
On Friday, Barry told The News Tribune that he knew what the consequences would be for his bold tactics, but he was willing to accept them.
After his speech Tuesday, he was arrested and sent to Remann Hall juvenile detention center in Tacoma. He was ousted from school on an emergency expulsion.
He says he fully accepts his punishment. He faces misdemeanor charges of unlawful drug possession after police found the container that he carried the joint in and that contained marijuana residue. He also understands this will go on his record.
“I see myself as someone who holds himself to a high moral value,” Barry said via cell phone. “I stand up for what I believe in.”
News of his speech and arrest spread quickly, as local and national media outlets picked up his story.
But more importantly, he said, his story has created a dialogue about whether marijuana should be legalized.
“As Sir Isaac Newton said, ‘Every action has an equal and opposite reaction,’ ” Barry said. “I don’t think there would have been another way I could have gotten this reaction.”
Here is Barry’s account of what happened:
About a month ago, he and the rest of the students in Peninsula’s Rhetoric Revels group were asked to produce a persuasive speech. The group meets monthly to celebrate student work in English classes.
He said a classmate suggested that he present a speech on legalizing marijuana. He said he has smoked pot since he was 12, and the topic made sense because it was something in which he believed.
Barry, who has a 3.7 grade-point average, stressed that he took the assignment seriously. In fact, what was supposed to be a two-page paper turned into 15 pages.
But to prove his point and get the attention of all students, Barry decided to take the now-famous puffs.
On Tuesday, about 150 students gathered in Peninsula High’s auditorium. They had heard about his plans and wanted to see it for themselves.
When it was his turn to speak, Barry said he walked on stage and read the first seven pages.
Then, before he turned to the eighth page, he pulled out the joint that was hidden in his dreadlocks. He said he lit up, took a toke, then read the rest of his speech, occasionally stopping to take a puff.
“There was a huge cheer when I lit up,” he recalled.
Among the topics covered in his speech: marijuana’s medicinal benefits and its undeserved reputation of being harmful. It lasted about 12 minutes.
When he was done, Barry walked backstage, took a few more hits, then ate the little bit that remained of the joint.
One of his friends went to check on him backstage, then the two sat back down in the audience. A school administrator walked to Barry, escorted him out and eventually to the principal’s office.
Barry said a police officer showed up, put him in handcuffs and drove him to Remann Hall.
He was booked, fingerprinted and photographed before being released to his father about an hour later.
In the days since his speech, he’s been both defended and condemned in dozens of online comments on the story on The News Tribune’s Web site.
Barry said he’s been encouraged by some of the comments, but it’s fine if people disagree with his stance. He just hopes people realize that he was simply trying to get his message across and wasn’t afraid of his punishment.
His future is in flux. He will meet with Peninsula administrators to determine whether he should be allowed to finish classes.
He’s also looking beyond high school at college. Barry is considering a career in English or politics.
He said he’s going to take the SAT test today. His first college of choice: “California, probably Humboldt” State University, he said.
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: veggie]
#10463999 - 06/07/09 02:01 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Here's some (extremely poor quality) video:
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: Ythan]
#10465144 - 06/07/09 12:03 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Could more high profile civil disobedience like this get the legalization ball rolling even more? We need public smoke out demonstrations more than once at year on 4/20
EDIT: Wow just saw this status update for one of my friends on facebook
"Your 3.7GPA doesn't mean a thing. You're still retarded."
 some people are just fucking stupid. My response was
"It takes balls to be a martyr and make a stance over a retarded law. Civil disobedience was the point, he knew he would get in trouble. The point is drug prohibition causes more harm than the drugs."
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: neopet nub]
#10465439 - 06/07/09 01:36 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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This happened in my hometown, which is a small, rich community. I haven't been back home, yet. But my mother has contacted me about this, and it seems the community is reacting strangely to the matter. Most people in my community believe stoners to be drop outs, however, this kid was a great student. I'm extremely awed by the students courage, and ideals. I feel his activism will have a great impact on my community, as well as Washington state.
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: Mr Cyan]
#10465483 - 06/07/09 01:47 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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I don't get why there's still the stigma pot makes you stupid. There's alot of stupid potheads but there's alot of smart people who smoke pot too. I just think people who are already bound to fail and have motivation are more likely to break the law/do illegal drugs than straight laced law abiding people. So of course there's more 'dumb' people who smoke pot.
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: Ythan]
#10465563 - 06/07/09 02:07 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: xrommy]
#10474591 - 06/09/09 01:05 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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"News of his speech and arrest spread quickly, as local and national media outlets picked up his story."
Any one have any links to this?
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: SyntheticSkies]
#14070956 - 03/05/11 03:25 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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oops OLD POST
Edited by smokesnugz (03/05/11 03:27 PM)
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: smokesnugz]
#14082469 - 03/07/11 07:30 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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This is notable though in that Ythan posted it.
Also I remember hearing about this on Free Talk Live and thought that it was awfully ballsy and that I wish I'd done the same thing.
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: alex59195]
#14085795 - 03/08/11 11:27 AM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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alex59195 said:
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Elixier said:
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alex59195 said:in the words of Bob Marley, “Legalize it, don’t criticize it”.
I believe those words were written by Peter Tosh.
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: veggie]
#14089160 - 03/08/11 11:06 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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I wanna shake this guys hand. hes a hero to the truth that needs to get out. Just like Zach Galifianakis that toked up on HBO's 'Real Time with Bill Maher. More people need to do stuff like this. Stand up for what you believe in.
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Re: Student Arrested After Smoking Joint During Pro-Pot Essay At School [WA] [Re: Sticky Green]
#14093165 - 03/09/11 05:29 PM (2 years, 2 months ago) |
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Sticky Green said:
He knew he wasn't going to get away with it. He was trying to make a statement. I would love to shake this guy's hand and congratulate him on having a huge set of balls. If anything more people should do this kind of thing.
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