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he real battle for marijuana law reform continues to be fought at the state level. In state capitals across the country, legislatures are (puff, puff) passing bills at a rate that is leaving the biggest marijuana supporters fuzzy-headed and delirious. But if these important state-level reforms are to have a lasting effect, supporters of marijuana law reform need to demand changes to federal law as well. On his way out of office in January 2010, New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine signed medical marijuana legislation, going into effect this July. This makes New Jersey the 14th state to legalize pot for medicinal use, joining Alaska, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington. While New Jersey patients will not be allowed to “grow your own” as in the other states with medical mari-

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juana laws, they will, with a physician’s recommendation, be able to obtain medical weed from state-authorized “alternative treatment centers”. Other states, including Connecticut, Minnesota, and New Hampshire, have passed medical marijuana bills through their legislatures, only to see them vetoed by the states’ governors. The fight hasn’t been limited to so-called medical marijuana. Many states have already decriminalized the possession of small amounts of marijuana, treating a first-time possession offense like a traffic violation, and several other states are currently working on such reforms. The 13 states that have already passed decriminalization laws are: Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, and Oregon. Legislation is currently working through the Hawaii Senate to set fines for possession of an ounce or less

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at $100 and to establish “compassion centers” in the state (since, despite the state’s medical marijuana law, there is no legal way for patients to obtain marijuana). A New Hampshire bill to reduce marijuana possession to a fine-only offense passed the state House 214-137 on March 19, 2010; that state’s Democratic governor, John Lynch, has threatened to veto the bill. (Governor Lynch vetoed the medical marijuana bill passed by New Hampshire’s legislature; the House voted to override the veto 240-115, but, on October 30, 2009, the Senate came up two votes short – with a two-thirds majority (16 of 24) required to override, the vote was 14-10. In addition, many states have for the first time been seriously considering the possibility of legalizing pot for its potential tax revenues. California, the first state to pass medical marijuana laws back in 1996 (as well as the locale of an estimated $15 billion in untaxed cannabis sales per year), may become the first state to regulate and tax marijuana for personal use. On March 25, the California election officials affirmed that the Regulate, Control, and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010 qualified for this November’s state ballot after over 700,000 signatures were gathered in support of the bill; now, the decision rests with California voters. (In an April 2009 Field Poll, 56% of Californians expressed support for legalizing, regulating, and taxing marijuana for personal adult use.) If approved by a majority

of voters, the new law will allow adults (21 and over) to possess up to one ounce of marijuana for personal consumption, as well as to grow marijuana on one’s personal property. Taxes on retail sales and commercial cultivation, to be instituted by local governments, is estimated to be set at $50 per ounce; personal cultivation and not-for-profit sales will be untaxed. Possessing marijuana on school grounds, smoking in public or in the presence of minors, and providing it to anyone under 21 will remain illegal. Similarly, on March 5, Rhode Island lawmakers introduced legislation to legalize and tax the production, distribution, and personal use of marijuana for adults 21 and older; similar bills have also been introduced in the last year in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Washington. Legalization in these less-populated states would obviously be a step in the right direction. But judging by how California’s medical marijuana law paved the way for other states, passage of their legalization law certainly could have the same effect. In addition to the strong support and action coming from many state legislatures, supporters of marijuana reform have as of late found another unlikely ally: medical science. A study conducted by the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research reached favorable conclusions regarding the therapeutic value of inhaled marijuana, whether smoked or vaporized. This study, just made public last month, was commissioned and funded by the California state legislature. While the risks of drug abuse remain rightfully recognized, public perception of marijuana is changing: despite what they’ve been told over the years, a majority of Americans now rightfully believe that alcohol is “more dangerous” than marijuana according to a Rasmussen poll. Indeed, 51% of those called in the September 2009 poll now believe that alcohol, which is linked to around 75,000 deaths every year (according to your U.S. government), is more dangerous than marijuana, which has caused zero reported deaths. God Bless America. Despite all of this progress, ultimately, the law itself remains against marijuana – even for patients who are prescribed marijuana by their doctors to treat debilitating conditions and who obtain or grow it in complete compliance with state law. The Controlled Substances Act (CSA) remains the law that covers federal policy for the manufacture, importation, possession, use and

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distribution of marijuana. Under the CSA, for a substance to be treated as a Schedule I drug, findings must show that it (a) has a high potential for abuse, (b) has no currently accepted use as a medical treatment in the United States, and (c) is unsafe for use even under medical supervision. Marijuana is currently treated as a Schedule I, alongside heroin, MDMA, LSD, peyote, mescaline, and psilocybin (the active ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms). Schedule II drugs, which contrasted with Schedule I’s requirements “have currently accepted medical uses,” include cocaine, opium and methamphetamine. The last major word from the Supreme Court came in the 2005 case Gonzales v. Raich. In a decision already being taught to constitutional law students at law schools nationwide, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that within Congress’ authority under the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution, the federal government can criminally prosecute patients who possess marijuana or who cultivate it on their own property for their own personal medical use. Justice John Paul Stevens, the leader of the liberal wing of the Court and author of the majority opinion, recognized that evidence regarding the effective medical use of marijuana “would cast serious doubt on the accuracy of the findings that require marijuana to be listed in Schedule I”. However, since the question in that case was whether Congress had the power at all to regulate the personal production and distribution of marijuana, the Court was bound by law, and the law states that Congress has such power. While the states’ medical marijuana laws remain in effect, until the federal law is changed, nothing is legally stopping the federal government from criminally prosecuting marijuana users under the CSA, even in states that pass laws completely legalizing and regulating marijuana, and even users who grow their own marijuana and never remove it from their property. Though he’s been quiet about it, President Obama has brought some remnant of the change he preached during his campaign – but not nearly to the extent that some supporters have hoped... In an interview with Rolling Stone Magazine, soon after leaving the White House, President Clinton lamented that he did not achieve his goal of legalizing marijuana. With large Republican blocs in Congress during his presidency, not to mention the general public opinion against marijuana still alive from the anti-drug Reagan era, it’s pretty obvious now that any continued on page 56

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new age sustainable entrepreneurs Against the grain Founded by Megan Monroe, Philadelphia University

Who says there is no such thing as fashion that's sustainable? Watch out because Megan Monroe is bringing it your way. Megan explains her company, Against the Grain, “The mission is to see no fabric scrap go into the trash, and to recreate old favorites and make them wearable again, either for the original owner, or for someone new.” Recycling clothes, like recycling bottles, is something Megan has made into a real business venture. This sophomore sells her high fashion clothes around campus. Upon graduation she has big dreams and will be working on the business full time. She believes that each individual in this world can truly make a difference. She plans on making her contribution by pursuing her goal of making Against the Grain a fully sustainable clothing and accessory company for men and women. “Never stop dreaming,” is Megan's maxim.

Goboo clothing Founded by Eric Jorgenson Michigan State University

Pandas are not the only ones with bamboo on their minds, Eric Jorgensen is too. Eric has started an environmentally friendly clothing 24

company. While researching how people could make better everyday choices, Eric learned that bamboo is a great choice for fabric. He could not find a place to buy a shirt made from bamboo, so he concluded he would start his own clothing company. Ever wear a shirt made from bamboo? Eric explains just how comfortable the eco-friendly fabric is: “Feels like a thousand angels caressing you all day long.” Honestly, who wouldn't want that? Eric believes that, increasingly, people are realizing the importance of sustainability, and in the future, if companies want the public to buy their products, companies will have to practice sustainability. For Eric, it is not enough simply to distribute GoBoo in stores. Eric will use distribution methods that are eco-friendly and mindful of the company's carbon footprint.

they have found an inexpensive and effective solution to the problem of contaminated drinking water. The product that makes you say “Wow!,” is a removable bottle-top purifier. Screw the purifier on a bottle filled with contaminated water, squeeze on the bottle, and out comes clean, drinkable water. These authentic social entrepreneurs are not looking to make a lot of money, but instead, they want their product to make a small but meaningful difference in the lives of others.

SolÉ bicycles Founded by Jonathan Shriftman & Jake Medwell University of Southern California

Osmopure Founded by Adam Rivard and Dave Perry Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

What started as a senior design project developed into a full-blown company with a powerful mission. A professor wanted his students to focus their product development on social responsibility. Two mechanical engineers were then told they had to choose an area that they knew little about. Talk about really having no idea what you are getting into. Recent graduates, Adam and Dave decided to tackle the global water crisis: an area that has attracted a lot of attention recently. With an entirely different approach,

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These two seniors have bigger things on their mind than graduation in May. They are helping the environment one bicycle at a time. Jonathan Shriftman and Jake Medwell are rapidly spreading their passion for sustainability. They want people to choose bicycles for transportation over cars and that is why they have founded Solé Bicycles. These fixed gear bicycles are made from recycled steel and other recycled metals. The interest for Solé Bicycles began when Jonathan was searching for a fixed gear bicycle. The search quickly ended after Jonathan discovered how expensive the bikes were. Instead of throwing in the towel, Jonathan and Jake worked together on a solution to their expensive problem. Their answer: provide people with a bicycle made out of recycled materials, at an inexpensive price. What’s next for Jonathan and Jake? Solé Bicycles will be on the streets in less than a month. After that, the team will keep moving towards their goal of distributing the bicycles worldwide.

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Smarter shade Founded by Will McLeod, Mike Stacey, & Ryan Tatzel Notre Dame

Three green musketeers are on a journey to control the amount of light coming into your house. What does that mean? The product they have created, SmarterShade, applies tint to a window, which replaces the need for shades or blinds. Without using electricity, SmarterShade can cool your house, simply by managing the incoming light. Their journey began during Will McLeod’s junior year in college and although his grades slipped a little bit as a result of starting the business, Will and his team were determined to persevere. Will explains his passion, “Go big or go home.” The fact that they have raised over $43,000 between a grant and business plan competitions shows that the team is living up to Will’s motto. Will has always had a passion for sustainability and he sees sustainable practices as the only way to go about doing things. “Who really wants to design landfills anymore?” he asks. The SmarterShade team has an exciting future ahead of them.

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Student shot by campus police at UF Erik Vosatka, student University of Florida

administrative Hypocrisy at UMIAMI Sarah Henderson, student University of Miami

kNightnews.com restrained from reporting at UCF Ivan Flores, student Florida International University

On March 2, UFPD received a 911 call from a resident that heard screams coming from Kofi AduBrempong’s apartment in Corry Village Family Housing on the UF campus. Kofi, 35, had a childhood case of polio and walks with a cane. UFPD arrived on the scene, and after 90 minutes of trying to create a line of communication, they forced entry into Kofi’s home. Police first used a taser gun and a bean-bag gun in order to subdue Kofi. Then, authorities stated that Kofi had used a knife and a pipe/rod (which has been suggested to actually be his cane) to threaten the police, so the five heavily armored officers were “forced” to shoot the handi-

capped Kofi. Two shots came from the barrel of Officer Keith Smith’s .223 caliber Bushmaster A-4 rifle, one of the shots blasted Kofi’s jaw. Kofi has been held at Shands Hospital in critical condition. In 2008, Smith was involved in an incident in which off-duty officers admitted they had traveled through high-crime areas in the city and harassed people by throwing eggs. Following the shooting, Smith was put on paid leave and is now on paid administrative duty. There have been several protests to drop the charges against Kofi, release Smith, and discontinue the operations of the police team that was involved with this incident.

A WISE WOMAN once said: “Academic freedom requires an environment where intellectual pluralism and the free expression of ideas are embraced. The University of Miami, as an institution dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge and charged with the duty of educating young adults from around the world, is committed to supporting the values of free speech, the rights of assembly and free association, and other basic civil liberties." That was Donna Shalala on January 18, 2006. Those words have never been more hypocritical than today, at the University of Miami. The fact that this very publication, founded by former UM Students, is banned from the UMiami campus, is evidence that free speech may be on the way out at UM. Sandra Redway, director of Business Services for the University of Miami, reminds UM students that "Distribution [of media] at a private university is

a privilege, not a right." According to the University of Miami Policies, students wishing to disseminate any form of media (this means anything you print more than 1 copy of) are required to seek permission and approval from the UM Board of Publications, a committee comprised mostly of faculty and administration, directed by chair Norm Parsons (who has no media experience whatsoever). Each semester, the Board of Publication meets to discuss student's requests to distribute media. In the past, the Board has been very reluctant to allow new student media to distribute on campus, one example being the Miami War Canoe Newspaper, which was met with hostility from the Board of Publications for publishing anonymous articles, and was eventually banned from UM and then shutdown. The point is, UM needs to stop trying to censor their students and let freedom ring.

In what is clearly a violation of First Amendment rights, which guarantee Freedom of Press, administrators at the University of Central Florida (UCF) limited KnightNews.com's coverage of a Student Government Association (SGA) meeting. KnightNews.com is a non-profit, independent news agency covering the UCF area. Administrators stated that police action would be taken if KnightNews.com reporters were caught beyond the "free press zone." However, a rival publication, Central Florida Future, was allowed access to the meeting. Photographs taken by KnightNews. com, clearly showed rival photographers reporting from beyond this zone. UCF is a public institution; and as such, public media organizations such as KnightNews.com should be permitted to cover UCF activities. It is discriminatory for University officials to grant preferential access only to those media organizations it favors. KnightNews.com has contacted

the American Civil Rights Union which is currently reviewing this case as well as other cases of restrictions levied against KnightNews.com by UCF. Unfortunately, UCF has a history of violating First Amendment rights. In 2002, members of the UCF Liberty Knights athletic team, as well as members of the Libertarian Party of Orange and Seminole Counties were threatened with citations and arrest for a peaceful protest. UCF may have met their match by violating the First Amendment rights of KnightNews.com, a media organization that is not willing to accept limited coverage for themselves or others. On its website, KnightNews. com has posted its intentions to investigate all claims of First Amendment violations by UCF, and has even set up a tip line (407-5-TIP-UCF). KnightNews.com is paving the way for Freedom of Press in the digital era, and is speaking up for those who can't speak up for themselves.

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N March 26th, 2009 the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act (DREAM Act), was introduced to the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. If passed, this bill will provide conditional residency to undocumented immigrants who have graduated high school and have a clean criminal record. The problem is that the DREAM Act, originally introduced by Senator Richard Durbin in 2007, has been defeated in Congress numerous times. The original version was defeated by only 8 votes in 2007. "Politicians are scared of it. They think that it is immigration reform, instead of education reform" said Dante John Terminello, a University of Central Florida student and co-founder of the Central Florida DREAM Act coalition. The coalition helps to lobby congressmen and educate the public on the DREAM Act. The DREAM Act is incredibly provisional; with nearly 10 million illegal aliens in the United States, it is projected that only 65,000 undocumented Americans would reap the benefits of this bill per

The Dream Act enables illegal immigrants to graduate Amanda Hankins, student University of Central Florida year according to the DREAM Act Portal, an online community for undocumented youth. Juan Carlos Barrientos, a graduate student at UCF, was one of the lucky ones. Barrientos immigrated here from Colombia when he was 10 years old and graduated high school with no form of identification. However, when Barrientos attempted to go to UCF in 1998, they wouldn't even allow him to apply. He obtained citizenship six years later. "They just dream to have a normal life," said Barrientos. When asked what inspires him to lobby for something he doesn't need he said, "I used to need it."

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Through recruiting, educating, and peaceful gatherings, the Central Florida DREAM Act Coalition is gaining momentum in their fight for a "normal life." Their efforts recently paid off. The University of Central Florida recently passed the DREAM Act Resolution, a written support for the DREAM Act itself–something that Florida State University already endorsed. "Even though I am still able to go to college, I could still benefit from [the DREAM act] passing,” said Andrea Medina, a sophomore who immigrated here 8 years ago from Venezuela. “This would give me residency and the ability to take out loans or go to law school, I would no longer be just an X.” The journey is not over yet for the 65,000 Americans who will graduate this year without documentation.. Andrea Medina said, "If the DREAM Act were to pass, I would have the confidence of knowing that what I am doing right now has a purpose, I would know that all my dreams could come true. No more "maybe this year." Isn’t that what America is all about, anyway? "

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hile it’s true that today’s social networking sites enable this new digital generation to see the world in a completely different light from how the Baby Boomers grew up thinking, it’s equally undeniable how detrimental these websites have been in cultivating a future society based on technological interaction rather than normal, healthy human interaction. Gone are the traditional public meeting places and modes of vocal socializing, replaced by online copouts for yesterday’s shy introvert to transform into the life of the party with the click of a mouse, resulting in a dysfunctional society rooted in guile, duplicity and false pretense. In line with this general atmosphere of duplicitous social networking is the dangerous reality of online Panopticism—a social theory originally developed by French philosopher Michel Foucault in his book Discipline and Punish concerning the systematic ordering and controlling of human populations through subtly secret forces. The post 9/11 era brought Panopticism—both at home and abroad— to the forefront of the War on Terror, using such tools as the Patriot Act to spy on citizens and terrorists alike. As a result, we’re now living in a world of

intense surveillance and privacy invasion that looks all too similar to a totalitarian society. Privacy has essentially become a thing of the past, and nowhere is that more evident than on social networking sites. A federal prosecutor in Seattle convicted a man on bank fraud charges after tracking him down through his public “friends” list on a social networking site, as revealed in an internal Justice Department document that came to light in a recent lawsuit. The document also revealed that federal agents are using sites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and LinkedIn as tools to capture cybercriminals by creating false profiles and communicating with suspects while gathering private information for use as legal evidence. The document was obtained by a San Francisco-based civil liberties group after suing the Justice Department in federal court. When it comes to expressing themselves over the internet, this generation loves nothing more than digitally whoring themselves with sites like Facebook and MySpace, offering up every little detail of their lives for the world to view like animals at the zoo. In a report by The Economist entitled “The Net Generation, Unplugged”, one explanation for such rampant status postings throughout these

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sites is that “Rather than genuinely being more politically engaged, they may simply wish to broadcast their activism to their peers.” But just because you have something to share with the world doesn’t mean it should be recorded online and become part of the permanent record, which it undoubtedly will if you tweet it or post it on Facebook; so it’s your cat’s birthday today, or you’re still hungover from that “rager” last night—who gives a shit? Why broadcast it to the whole world, when doing so might land you in trouble even when you least expect it? Sure, Facebook is constantly adapting to the demands of users to increase privacy settings to protect them from being stalked

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online, but there are always loopholes within the system allowing someone with the proper ingenuity and motivation the ability to investigate and report infractions of the law, be they employers, school officials or law enforcement agencies. Back when I was a freshman at the University of Miami, I was the unfortunate victim of online privacy invasion after being convicted of an ex post facto major infraction of resident hall policies because of a picture discovered on Facebook (not on my account) depicting me with an ice cold keg in my dorm room on Halloween in 2005, which was contained in a cart rented from the front desk of the residence hall. Also seen in the background of the picture was a series of laminated “Resident Assistant” signs from the various floors of the building, handmade by each of the RA’s. Needless to say, that Halloween night went off without a hitch and was a smashing success. After being caught with booze in the wrong room at the wrong time on a few occasions in the dorms that year, I knew the ropes—how to avoid getting caught, what to do if I was about to get caught, etc.—and I executed my plan to perfection that night with the keg. In the

following weeks, I often thought about the ease with which I managed to get a keg up in there and enjoy it throughout the night. About a month later, I was away from my dorm room one night when my roommate was rudely awakened in the middle of the night by the fascist RA’s. He had to get out of bed, turn on the lights and open the door for them after he had already fallen asleep. They immediately spotted the missing RA signs that somehow wound up in my room, confiscated them (which was apparently their sole purpose for knocking on the door) and wrote citations for my poor roommate and me (even though I wasn’t present at the time), not telling him how they came to know about these signs in our room. We received official notification shortly thereafter of a future meeting with the Resident Coordinator. During my meeting with the RC, I was given a disciplinary warning for having taken the signs and was told that the RA’s “put a lot of time” into making these cheesy little signs using markers and construction paper, and that “their feelings were hurt” when the signs went missing. Ok, fine. I signed off on the stupid charge, was literally getting up from my seat and was ready to be on my way, when the RC stopped me: “There’s just one more thing,” said the RC, “please sit back down.” This should be interesting, I told myself. “We have reason to believe that you had a keg in your room on Halloween,” the RC said coldly, waiting for a response. I quickly racked my brain to figure out what, if anything, the RC actually knew and how it might have been discovered, but I could think of nothing. It had been well over a few months since the keg was in my room; how could they possibly know? Then, out of nowhere, the RC pulls out a green envelope, opens it up in front of me and proceeds to pull out an 8 x 10 color photograph of me with the keg in my room and the missing RA signs in the background. I was busted, set up like a bowling pin and knocked down. I instantly remembered the photograph being taken that Halloween night by some fuck who lived on my floor, and me adamantly telling this jerkoff that very night to specifically “never put that

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on Facebook”—common-sense advice which he did not follow, much to my chagrin. To this day, I still cannot believe that some spineless, yellow-bellied narcs would go to the trouble to patrol Facebook for residence hall infractions and be petty enough to report them to the RC— there’s a warm seat in Hell for people like that. That was when I quit Facebook and all that other shit for good. Never before has my personal privacy been so rudely and unjustly invaded. In a similar scenario, when Michael Phelps was photographed last year taking a hit from a bong at a party, despite being persecuted by the media and stupidly penalized by the U.S. Swimming Federation, local authorities were unable to arrest him from a mere photograph. Doug Strickland, the head of the Richland County Public Defender's office, stated that he could not recall a case where someone was criminally charged with drug possession based on photographic evidence and an admission of non-specific wrongdoing—at least the Richland County authorities had enough decency to recognize a person’s civil liberties, unlike the foolish residence halls at a private institution like the University of Miami. Breaches of privacy are all too common on social networking sites. As these sites continue to grow and develop over the years, privacy settings are constantly being tampered with and the next thing you know, some creepy sex-offender in backwoods Georgia has personal information about you for Lord knows what purposes. While we may never know the full extent of the government’s invasion of our privacy until years from now, it is obvious that social networking sites are being persuaded by various authorities to release and report critical information regarding the private lives of American citizens everywhere— Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes has openly admitted that the site has compiled a handbook to help law enforcement officials understand “the proper ways to request information from Facebook to aid investigations”—thanks to everyone revealing the most inane and often all too revealing details of their lives.

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reviews : books, music, and two documentaries

1 \\ TED GANUNG Music :“Ted Ganung is a Dub Artist,” says the first line of his MySpace bio. But after listening to his work on The Grass Is Always Greener, it is unmistakable that Ted Ganung is more than just a dub artist. Raised in Hawaii and currently residing in New York, Mr. Ganung infuses dub with many other sounds, creating a mishmash of placid dub-tempo reggae drenched in luxuriant liquid lava love. His motive? To shine light on the verdant side of life. “Grass Is Always Greener,” with its lush air and smooth regularity, will warm cores and take listeners to another dimension. “Perfect Words” is a faultless reality escape. “Touch the Sky,” sounds like an Ace of Base throwback. No melancholy melodies here. Have it rough? Turn on Ted Ganung and obtain an easy, breezy “no-woman-no-cry” mentality on life. After all, The Grass Is Always Greener on the other side. _Stephanie “Miss Long” Long \\ FIU grass, the movie Documentary : These days, no one would be surprised that Woody Harrelson is the narrator of a documentary about the history of marijuana. “Grass” moves along a timeline starting in 1912, where laborers in Laredo, Texas smoked to relax, and ending in NYC during the Clinton administration of 1999. “Grass” opens with a clip from “High on the Range,” a silent, black and white film from 1929 depicting a young man who “only wants to try” marijuana and ends up killing a man. Harry Anslinger, drug commissioner for the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and this flick's bad guy, goes to great lengths to put marijuana in a negative light. “Grass” highlights major events in weed's long history and uses clips from popular films such as “Reefer Madness” and “Up In Smoke” as well as actual news clips of presidents and other political figures. “Grass” is less of a comedy and more of a documentary - the kind of documentary you'd expect to see in history class or political science class. Nevertheless, this film has definitely left me fiendin' for some green. Luckily, here in NYC, delivery service is available. _ Lara Marsman \\ MSAD 34

2 \\ Reality Hunger Book : The bare breasts of an ex-girlfriend have been forever memorialized in a Polaroid photo. I used this particular Polaroid as a bookmark for my initial reading of David Shields’s Reality Hunger. Am I being too real for you? If so, read this book, because you need to wake from a cultural slumber, according to Shields’s long-anticipated 21st century manifesto on the written word. Art is theft. The world is everything that is the case. A poem should not mean/ But be. Reality Hunger is largely constructed of words and ideas not originally written (or said or sung) by Shields himself. He is politically anti-citation, militarily pro-sample. Shields's own voice surfaces now and then to shape the book's next turn. Most traditionally "necessary" quotation marks are excluded. He urges the reader to physically cut out the appendix citation pages in the back, which are there by copyright law. Shields essentially strings together 618 note cards worth of other peoples’ words against a true distinction between fiction and nonfiction. His strategy-mantra: ‘I need say nothing [or very little], only exhibit.’ (A phrase once written by Walter Benjamin, I note in my still-intact appendix). The resulting rapids of thought are intoxicating. Shields? Picasso? Wittgenstein? MacLeish? Is that you, Moon, or the Cheshire Cat? _Tyler Merbler \\ UMiami Alum 3 \\ Sade Music : The always-gorgeous voice of Sade Adu straddles the lines of Latin influenced tones and rhythm and blues approach. Sade, named after lead singer Sade Adu, is a closet favorite of millions of music lovers out there. The band has never seemed to get the respect they deserve, even after such hits as “No Ordinary Love”, lit up the airwaves and the silver screen in ‘Indecent Proposal’. Sade’s recently released album Soldier of Love was released on February 8th. Being the first new material in almost ten years, we believe the music may have a new home for listeners of a softer rock/soul style of music. Her sultry Jazz voice conjures up images of smoky Jazz clubs and the gorgeous singer standing there, alone on a stage belting out lines like “ I've lost the use of my heart, but I'm still alive. Still looking for the life. The endless pool on the other side. It's a wild wild west. I'm doing my best.” True to the jazz and blues predecessors, Sade's latest album hits the heart and all the range of emotions it could produce. And we love her for it. _Michael Hacker \\ Montclair Alum

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Magazine is particularly excited about hearing it in entirety especially after our recent sneak peak at the single 'Between the Lines.' Taking a few listens of the new song, the initial reaction was one of nostalgia. The grit of the late 90’s rock is still alive and well within the band’s chemistry and core approach. The anticipation of this album should build towards its release date, reigniting a generation of rock loyalists and garnering new fans along the way. Look for STP on the physical and digital shelves May 25th, and get ready to rock. _Michael Hacker \\ Montclair Alum

5 \\ B-LIMINAL MUSIC : They say that the greatest things in life are unexpected, and the idiom holds true for Jupiter, Florida’s own B-Liminal. What began as a small venture founded by Bryce Rutkowski in 2007 unfolded into a full-on band with the addition of members Michael Lyons, Max Fraser and Ryan “Ryngo” Weidenfeld. It wasn’t long after their coming together that they were discovered by Jett Beres and subsequently signed to Secret 7 Records in 2009. Now, with their debut album, Shore Culture, released and available on iTunes, the four guys have found themselves living a life

of what can be called an overnight success. In the short time span of only two years, B-Liminal has already become one of South Florida’s most highly-acclaimed acts. And after listening to Shore Culture, it’s no wonder that this band has substance. Songs like “Strength” and “Why Do I” will not only get you moving, but they will leave you inspired as well. B-Liminal’s blend of rich reggae riddims and thought-provoking lyrics festooned with their interpolation of ska rock is more than passable; it’s splendidly satisfying. _ Stephanie “Miss Long” Long \\ FIU

6 \\ REDEYE EMPIRE Music : Redeye Empire’s sophomore album finds band members Gabe Davis, Mike Redmond, Eric Stephenson, Ben Brown, Andre Arsenault and Ali Siadat right where they left off in their 2007 debut. Sea to Sky could have very easily been released back in early ’92 just as then-ska-predominate, No Doubt, was making a name for themselves. “Oh I Say” and its punky guitar intervals are shining examples of this retro influence. Then you have the edgier sound of songs

like the rock-intense “Throw Down” and the gutsy “I Want It All.” Round it off with the bubblegum essence of “Baby” and you have yourself the perfect concoction of carefree music to lift your spirits on even the lowest of days. This is 2010’s Sublime; the “Santeria” chill of "The Diary of Everett Miley" proves to be a suitable platform for Sea to Sky’s stadium-filler ska style, making Redeye Empire's dive into the reggae/ rock fusion pool nice and smooth, but also with some splash. _ Stephanie “Miss Long” Long \\ FIU

Good hair Documentary : When word got around about Chris Rock's new documentary “Good Hair,” I was skeptical. Why would a man, who doesn't even have much hair, want make a documentary about it? The documentary centers around the annual three-day Bronner Bros. Hair Show in Atlanta, GA. The highlight of the show is the hair contest where select stylists from around the country compete for a $20K prize. Each person who enters must style three models in fifteen minutes and present their central theme with music. Hysterical. “Good Hair” was co-produced and narrated by the comedian, and during the film, Chris Rock interviews countless actors and popular figures including Nia Long, Dr. Maya Angelou, Reverend Al Sharpton, and others. “Daddy, how come I don't have good hair?” asks Rock's 5-year old daughter early in the film. As expected, Rock injects humor throughout the presentation, and at one point he questions the men waiting at the salon for their women: “Have you ever seen a woman and seen her hair and thought 'I can't afford that'?” He laughingly describes and exhibits the caustic relaxer process, in which a hair is straightened by applying to it a chemical that potentially could lead to blindness. In his closing words of wisdom, Rock affirms that he will continue to tell his young daughters that the “stuff on top of their heads is nowhere near as important as what's inside.” _ Lara Marsman \\ MSAD

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Down and out in the alma mater -Tyler merbler \\ Umiami Alum

I, 'mid the din, joint 'twain my throbbing knees; I, 'mid the life, 'mid the death, 'mid two trees; I, looking up from my Grecian chair, saw I, five years ago–nearly five in all.

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unday came and I went. She gave me the black skull and her collection of fairy tales. Surely they wouldn’t weigh me down much more than the two suitcases of ‘necessities’ already would. I didn’t seduce one of her roommates for a bed to sleep on, though at the time I suspected I probably could have, for a night at least. Word around the campfire was the stocky Italian was desperate, here in America, away from home. I didn’t fly North to my parents’ house. I didn’t crash on an old college friend’s couch. I didn't apply for a steady income at Taco Bell. No, I took public transportation to the beach, and I buried nearly all of my clothes and non-electronics two feet below the sand by a trash can. Then I took public transportation back to my alma mater. By the time I returned that p.m., the campus had long become an eery, dead-quiet garden of expensively lit palmways. With my backpack and still-pumping emotional adrenaline, I wandered the paths and greens for a place to spend the night. The Well would be safe from campus security, but not, I felt, safe from the ghosts nearby. After a tender, melancholy hour of weighing makeshift beds, I found an out-of-the-way Banyan tree, lowered my backpack next to one of its swirling asymptotic roots, smoked my first blunt as a single man in 3 years, and slept through the night. Laughter from the nearest path awoke me

Monday morning. South Florida's pink sunrise greeted me without so much as a pane between us. My alma mater's campus is, inarguably, the world's most beautiful. I picked the perfect college at which to hit rock bottom. Wild birds and reptiles wander freely through a gently rolling collection (as in Picasso collection) of rare and/or expensive trees and tropical flora. As an architecture buff, it took me a while to realize the blandness of the buildings were a focused attempt to not distract us from the natural beauty. On that first homeless morning under the Banyan, hearing students walk and ride along the lake path to their classes, I managed to keep the ghost of my girlfriend from docking in my mindstream. I closed my eyes and I waved a stone-faced palm to her seductive invitations floating by, which were alternately begging for and demanding an act of elegy. In reality, back at her apartment a few hundred yards away, in the bed still reeking of my midnight sweat, she had probably already moved on. Instead, I pondered how many nights I could sleep like this, out in the open, given average Floridian rainfall, Banyan campus security, the tree’s surprisingly airtight canopy, and my will to continue along the path of a stationary wanderer. Wouldn't you know, it was Florida's coldest winter since blah. I arose, brushed the dewy dirt and coral from my frame, and walked brisk steps to the Banyan convenience store. The coffee prices there are reasonable, so I bought a large.

Next, the student union men's room, ten feet from the cash register. I brushed my teeth, shaved, relieved my bowels, and put my arms and head through a clean white T-shirt from my backpack. But the T, once on, felt shady, unrespectable, grimy. The caption, 'Natty Boh: From the Land of Pleasant Living!' had been drained of its cycloptic wink and hometown charm. Passersby might think me some creepy old Banyan dropout-beggar, spending all his change on National Bohemian 40's and 305 cigs, searching for lost glory by stalking freshmen girls through dark palmways, masturbating in the stacks to the 1960's yearbooks, searching humanities hallways for old professors to pester, shooting up in front of tour groups, cooking endangered campus fauna in wastebasket fires beneath the lake bridge. I was no longer among the monolithic category of people who knew where they were continued on page 56

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the world is ours By Kris Liaugminas, UMiami Alum

Meet Tim . Tim is a 25-year-old American male originally from Bellevue, Washington. He has long, shaggy hair, lives in San Francisco, and like most people with those two traits, enjoys smoking marijuana. If you didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know any better and saw him walking down the street, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d most likely suspect that he was just a typical pothead.

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arguably the greatest rock album of all-time— Paul McCartney wrote in the lyrics to the song “Got to Get You into My Life”: “I took a ride, I didn’t know what I would find there / Another road where maybe I could see some other kind of mind there…did I tell you I need you, every single day of my life.” McCartney revealed in 1997 that the love song that so many had treasured was actually written as an ode to marijuana. Today’s younger generation has come to embody such a love affair with weed. To celebrate this love affair, our generation has come to devote an entire day once a year to the propagation of all things cannabis—April 20. Typically, the day has consisted of excessive marijuana consumption throughout college campuses across America, sometimes coinciding with marijuana-related concerts and festivals. The longtime perpetuation of the holiday, which has significantly increased each year during the past decade, has signaled to many just how impactful and prominent the pro-marijuana movement has become in this country. Former editor of High Times magazine, Steven Hager, has remarked that 4/20-related festivities have “reached the tipping point in the last few years after being a completely underground phenomenon for a long time...symptomatic of the fact that people’s perception of marijuana is reaching a tipping point.” The largest 4/20 gatherings have been found at the University of Colorado’s Boulder campus, where at least 10,000 people have shown up in back-to-back years from 2008-2009, rendering the festivities there the largest celebration of marijuana in the country. In Canada, an estimated 10,000 people gathered near the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2009 to celebrate 4/20. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNDOC) has measured the annual prevalence rate of cannabis use as a percentage of the population aged 15-64, meaning the percentage of the youth and adult population who have consumed the drug at least once in the past survey year. As published in their World Drug Report 2006, this rate for the United States measured in 2004 was 12.6%—that means 12.6% of our mainstream population smoked weed that year. In July 2009, Roger Roffman, a professor of social work at the University of Washington, stated that “approximately 3.6 million Americans are daily or near daily users.” Marijuana has effectively become ingrained

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enforcement systems as well as generating a sizeable income from the taxation of marijuana sales.

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What’s clear is that much of this generation smokes weed, but what seems to go undetected is just how active—politically, socially and environmentally—we really are. It’s no coincidence that the phrase “going green” coincides with the hippie movement in most people’s minds, and that the hippie movement naturally coincides with marijuana. One might easily conjure up the mental image of a longhaired hippie with a tie-died shirt smoking a joint and preaching about how we need to save the environment, respect the planet, recognize our role as stewards of the Earth, etc. If nothing else, smoking weed turns the average apathetic stoner into an activist of at least one cause—smoking weed. Look no further than the United States Marijuana Party: a legitimate, socially libertarian political party seeking to “end the war on drugs and legalize cannabis.” With local chapters in over 29 states, the organization represents the country’s leading solely anti-prohibitionist political party in America. The party was founded in 2002 by Loretta Nall, an Alabama woman once charged with a misdemeanor for marijuana possession and the Libertarian Party’s former candidate for governor of Alabama. Pointing to the more than 15 million Americans who smoke marijuana on a regular basis, the group claims that “more Americans are in jail today for non-violent drug offenses than at any previous time in American history. The war against marijuana is a genocidal war waged against us by a government determined to eradicate our plant, our culture, our freedom and our political rights.” Today, their president is Richard James Rawlings of Illinois, who has been arrested multiple times for distribution and possession of marijuana. He is currently running for a seat in the U.S. Congress in the 18th District of Illinois. The group’s website currently features a customary, strategically-phrased online petition entitled “Petition 420—Time to light up!” that members can send to President Obama to petition the Federal Government to legalize marijuana. Besides pointing out that marijuana has never been proven to

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kill or harm anyone, the petition directly proclaims that “Marijuana has a cash value! With our economy at an almost all-time low, and unemployment reaching a all-time high, marijuana should no longer be prohibited!” Another major player in the drug movement has been Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), an “international grassroots network of students” seeking reform in American drug laws; the group is actually comprised of a healthy mix of concerned students, alumni, educators and non-students alike. Taking the platform that drug abuse is destroying our communities while current drug laws are detrimental and ineffective, SSDP—which has been featured on virtually every major news network across the country— encourages our youth to take an active role in the political process to bring about “safer and more just” drug policies. Founded in 1998 by a small group of students at Rochester Institute of Technology and George Washington University, the group has since grown into 150 chapters at high schools and colleges across the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Rather than alienate the puritanical opposition to drug reform, or even the militant pro-drug left for that matter, the group wisely attempts to straddle the fence between both extremes to achieve a plausible solution. Their website’s value statement claims “Students for Sensible Drug Policy neither encourages nor condemns drug use. Rather, we seek to reduce the harms caused by drug abuse and drug policies.” SSDP encourages students anywhere and everywhere to start up a new chapter of the organization, encouraging them to “work on those issues that have the most traction in those communities” and bring such action items forward at their annual national conference, making the group the ultimate grassroots organization that truly values the autonomy of its individual chapters. Provided that students are able to successfully convince their schools' office of student government that starting a new chapter constitutes the practice of a recognizable organization, and provided that they hold regular meetings and attend national and regional SSDP events, then they can effectively start up their own chapters and contribute to the cause. Among other notable accomplishments

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Hemp: The Fabric of Our Nation

Ironically, hemp—which is cultivated from cannabis—was brought to this continent by Puritan settlers, of all people, and it’s that same puritanical spirit that is keeping marijuana illegal today. In the 1600’s, houses in Virginia were required by law to grow hemp, and soon after, several other colonies, including Maryland and Pennsylvania, began recognizing the crop as legal tender. George Washington grew hemp, along with Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and six other presidents. Recognizing the tremendous potential of hemp as a cash crop, Washington once said “make the most you can of the Indian Hemp seed and sow it everywhere.” Similarly, Jefferson once wrote that “hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country.” Abraham Lincoln actually smoked it—he once wrote during his presidency that he enjoyed “sitting on the front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp.” In recent times, a number of our major politicians in Washington have admitted marijuana use at some point in their lives. Current president Barack Obama has admitted smoking marijuana (among other things), as has his political counterpart, Sarah Palin (what else are you going to do in Alaska),

who strongly opposes legalizing it. Former presidential candidates Al Gore, John Kerry, John Edwards, Bill Bradley and Howard Dean have likewise confessed to smoking weed, along with current and former governors/ movie stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura—Arnold can clearly be seen smoking a joint in a scene at the end of his classic ode to bodybuilding, Pumping Iron, while Ventura has been quoted as saying “Sure I’ve smoked pot. I grew up in the 60s. If you didn’t smoke pot in the 60s you either didn’t grow up or you’re a damn liar.” And who could forget the perhaps all-time classic admission of use, from former president Bill Clinton, who admitted smoking marijuana but “did not inhale”—just like he “did not have sexual relations with that woman.” It’s a veritable who’s who of political all-stars, and it’s nice to know that some of these people are human after all. Maybe they never intended it to amount to anything more than an honest admission of having smoked

weed at one time in their lives, but what these political potheads have actually done is create a new mindset that weed is not only acceptable but perfectly normal, which it has

Marijuana Myths Marijuana Can Cause Permanent Mental Illness Marijuana Is Highly Addictive Marijuana Is More Potent Today Than In The Past Marijuana Offenses Are Not Severely Punished Marijuana Is More Damaging to the Lungs Than Tobacco * According to www.drugpolicy.org

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“When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it. I didn't inhale and never tried it again.” -Former President Bill Clinton, during a 1992 campaign interview. “When I was a kid I inhaled frequently. That was the point.” -President Barack Obama “Now, like, I'm President. It would be pretty hard for some drug guy to come into the White House and start offering it up, you know?...I bet if they did, I hope I would say, ‘Hey, get lost. We don't want any of that.’” -Former President George W. Bush, speaking to a group of students about drug abuse “That is not a drug. It’s a leaf.” - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California “It’s a very simple reality: marijuana leads to doing worse things. That’s just a fact...When you smoke marijuana at a young age it usually leads to alcohol abuse and harder drugs. So right there, that’s one reason why it should not be legalized.” -Actor Stephen Baldwin, “star” of Bio-Dome who also made an appearance in Half-Baked “I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?” -Willie Nelson “It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics . . . dope and all that crap. It's a thousand times better than whiskey - it's an assistant - a friend.” - Louis Armstrong

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Can’t We All Just Get A Bong?

Like Tim Lincecum, some of the leading superstars from the world of sports are inadvertently making strong endorsements for marijuana. Last year, 14-time Olympic gold medal winner Michael Phelps—easily the greatest Olympic athlete of all time—admitted to smoking weed after a photo was published of the swimmer at a party holding a bong while taking a hit. In a statement released to The Associated Press, Phelps quickly apologized for acting in a “youthful and inappropriate way”— essentially, for getting caught doing what he’s probably still doing now, albeit behind closed doors and far away from the nearest camera, and despite the fact that he’s still going to dominate the 2012 Olympics in London and rack up a few more gold medals for the old trophy case. In a media poll of over 121,000 random

What to do iF you're EVER pulled over with a lit Joint First, put out the J. If the 5-0. is really close, eat that shit ( this will cause serious stomachaches for a few days, but it's worth it to save your ass). Throw it out your window into a gutter or a drain if you have the opportunity, but keep in mind that the cop is watching, and will look for whatever you throw out the window. Then, If you have more stuff on you, hide it very well, either in underwear or eat it (just don't eat more than 2 grams). Your glove box is a smart place to hide it too. Just be sure to take out your paperwork as you throw your herb into the glove box; lock the glove box, and hide the key. If

people, 55% of people responding to the question “Have you lost any respect for Michael Phelps?” said no, while 79% of people responding to the question “Will Phelps lose any endorsement deals because of this?” said yes. It’s sad when so many athletes get paid to endorse different brands of alcohol while one athlete is not only publicly scorned but proceeds to lose money in endorsements just for being photographed hitting a bong. And it didn’t stop with the lost endorsements. Team USA Swimming apparently felt that what Phelps did was wrong enough to suspend their golden boy for three months—despite the fact that marijuana is clearly not a performanceenhancing drug. “This is not a situation where any anti-doping rule was violated,” said the Colorado Springs-based federation in a statement to the press, “but we decided to send a strong message to Michael because he disappointed so many people, particularly the hundreds of thousands of USA Swimming member kids who look up to him as a role model and a hero.” So never mind all those gold medals or all the publicity which the Olympics received on account of his amazing achievements in the water. Never mind the ridiculous amount of intense physical training that he undergoes on a routine basis to maintain top competitive form; all that seems to matter is protecting the youth…and from what? Apparently, from having kids realize the actual harmlessness of marijuana when you have your life together like Phelps. God forbid an eight-year-old ignorantly asking for swim goggles and a bong the cop asks about the glove box, tell him you cant open it because you lost the key a few weeks ago. Another place you can hide it is a canned soda with soda in it (obv. you'll ruin the weed, but it'll be really hard to find inside the can.

AFTER Hiding whatever you have left, Light a cig or a black and mild to cover up the smell of your trees. NEXT, Remain very calm. Do not give the cop any reason, other than the smell, to suspect anything. If he asks about the smell, tell him you were smoking a cig/black and mild/ cigar, or whatever you have in your mouth now. NOW, if you are arrested, get a really good lawyer; there are tons of them out there. You'll be fine.

for his birthday. And then there’s former NFL star running back Ricky Williams, who won the 1998 Heisman Trophy as the best player in college football, who loves smoking marijuana so much that he not only has jeopardized his playing career on multiple occasions for drug infractions but adamantly believes that weed is a highly-effective medicine to treat his clinical depression and crippling social anxiety disorder—during his playing career, he was so nervous and scared of media attention that he routinely conducted post-game interviews wearing his helmet with a completely tinted visor so as to avoid direct eye contact with reporters. After being prescribed with the antidepressant Paxil to alleviate his symptoms, he later quit the drug and admitted during an interview with ESPN that he believed marijuana to be “ten times better for [him] than Paxil. On February 20, 2006, the NFL announced that Williams had violated the league’s drug policy for the fourth time.

Let it Grow

What a long, strange trip it’s been for marijuana legislation in this country. We can buy guns legally—a right protected by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution—but we can’t legally buy a drug that makes us happy and relaxed. Like Moses during his 40th year in the desert right before he got greased by God, we are within reach of the Promised Land. Unlike Moses, however, this generation expects to reach that Promised Land sometime before the end of their lives, and rightfully so. At the current rate that reform in marijuana legislation is taking in North America, there is every reason to believe that weed will be fully legal in Canada within this decade and in the United States within the next 25 years. And just as Moses was the human instrument in the creation of Israel by communicating to it the Torah, we will hopefully one day be the instruments in the creation of a legally marijuana-tolerant society by forcing changes in the legislative process with our empowered generational activism. California’s landmark Proposition 215 signaled the inception of a new wave of rampant reform in marijuana legislation. On November 5, 1996, the California legislature passed this ballot proposition, also known as

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could prevent marijuana legislation from being overturned at the federal level during our lifetimes is the Obama administration’s current drug policy, which hasn’t exactly been the “change” many were looking for in marijuana legalization; Obama has clearly stated that he is not in favor of legalization on a national level, even after a January 2009 poll organized by Obama’s transition team to clarify some of the top issues that the American public wanted the President to look into revealed that two of the top ten ideas were marijuana legalization. To punctuate his steadfast determination to keep marijuana illegal, Obama’s Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Gil Kerlikowski, stated in July 2009 that “marijuana is dangerous and has no medical benefit” and that “legalization is not in the President’s vocabulary, and it’s not in mine.” Despite maintaining that the current administration will not raid medical marijuana dispensaries that cooperate with state and local laws, the DEA in February raided two Colorado medical marijuana laboratories that tested the quality of medical marijuana sold in the state; ironically, local and federal officials in Colorado had been complaining that medical marijuana needed to be better tested, prompting U.S. Representative Jared Polis of Colorado to make a statement online calling on the DEA to “stop their rogue agents from harassing and raiding our medical marijuana dispensaries.” All this has occurred under the watch of President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder, who have arrogantly stated that their administration “would effectively end the Bush administration’s frequent raids on distributors of medical marijuana”— either the DEA has been ignoring the Obama administration’s directive or the administration has just plain lied to us. It hasn’t helped that Obama nominated the acting DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart to formally head the DEA—Leonhart has overseen more than 200 federal medical marijuana raids in California as the DEA’s Deputy Administrator. It’s no coincidence that the two DEA raids on Colorado medical marijuana dispensaries in February occurred just two weeks after her promotion. Many have argued that the only reason

marijuana is still illegal is because it doesn’t have the lobbying behind it that big tobacco has. Fortunately for smokers in this country, that lobbying power is starting to emerge behind marijuana thanks to proactive, positive-thinking politicians like Congressman Ron Paul of Texas, who garnered unprecedented support from moderates for his campaign during his notable run for the presidency in 2008 largely thanks to his plausible pro-marijuana platform as a Republican candidate; Paul has stated that “the drug war is a total failure and the federal drug war ought to be revisited and, for the most part, gotten rid of.” Similarly, former President Jimmy Carter has added strength to the movement by prominently speaking out against marijuana prohibition, saying that “Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marijuana in private for personal use...Therefore, I support legislation amending Federal law to eliminate all Federal criminal penalties for the possession of up to one ounce of marijuana.” In the tenuous study of altered states of consciousness known as “psychonautics,” an “entheogen” is considered any psychoactive drug used for religious or spiritual purposes. The Baby Boomers had LSD, Generation X had Cocaine, and now Generation Green has Marijuana as it’s entheogen of choice to awaken their inner divinity. Generation Green will grow up to be more responsible than the Baby Boomers who first espoused the merits of marijuana back in the 60’s, as we will continue to use our passion for and inspiration from marijuana to positively champion social causes and reform detrimental government legislation unlike the scores of burnouts from the 60’s, whose use of marijuana and constant propensity for LSD amounted to nothing more than unorganized hedonistic rebellion and general aimlessness. Hopefully, we’ll be remembered as the generation that went green and by the time people are remembering us, hopefully weed will be legal.

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Class 2: UFC President, The Infamous Dana White a conversation with the man who realized the potential of MMA and started the UFC.

o single figure is more responsible for the meteoric growth and phenomenal success of mixed martial arts ("MMA") than UFC President Dana White. White is a self-proclaimed tough guy from South Boston. People often refer to him as a Southie, but he's one of the savviest businessmen of our time. Prior to White's emergence, MMA was basically a circus act in America. It had a limited fan base, virtually no distribution, and seemed headed towards extinction, either by fighter fatality or legislative prohibition. Then along came Dana White, a lifetime martial arts fan, with a working class resume that included stints as an amateur boxer, bar bouncer, and bellman at the Boston Harbor Hotel. White spent a portion of his childhood in Vegas, but only returned to Sin City after the Irish mob set its sights on him and his promising gym business. Once back on the strip, he began to manage two largely anonymous MMA fighters named Chuck Lidell and Tito Ortiz. The management role provided White with an intimate view inside the world of the UFC which led to an opportunity to purchase the organization from its original owner, Semaphore Entertainment Group. Never afraid to take a chance, White called upon his former classmate, Lorenzo Fertitta, and his brother Frank. The Fertittas were multimillionaire casino owners who provided White with the financial resources to take the plunge. In

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2001, White and his team of investors acquired the UFC. White assumed the role of UFC President and obtained a 10% stake in Zuffa, LLC, the entity created by the Fertitta brothers to own and manage their new enterprise. Unlike any of his contemporaries who were running major sports organizations, the always-colorful White subscribed to a â&#x20AC;&#x153;smash mouthâ&#x20AC;? style of management. He was often quoted dropping f-bombs and other expletives during press conferences and interviews. Given his propensity for profanity and his pit bull gruffness, White could be mistaken for a cluless thug who happened to be at the right place at the right time. Nothing could be further from the truth. Yes, White was fortunate to have been given the opportunity to acquire the UFC and more importantly, the connections to finance the purchase, but once the organization was obtained, the real hard work began. The last issue of back\slash Magazine introduced you to Zuffa and its charge toward what is now considered "The Fastest Growing Sport In The World". In the article entitled: "Class 1: What Is MMA?", we learned how Zuffa established the Unified Rules Of Mixed Martial Arts. These rules exponentially increased the safety of the sport, and after millions of dollars were spent on political lobbying, the organization is on the threshold of its most crowning achievement, legalizing MMA in New York State. Nearly a decade after acquiring the UFC, White is now the celebrity face of the UFC and MMA. After securing multi-million dollar sponsorship deals from the likes of beer giant Anheuser-Busch and the iconic motorcycle company Harley Davidson, one can only wonder what is next to come from this visionary Southie. Keep a look out for White as he directs his sport to new heights. Please stay tuned for our next class in which we focus on George St. Pierre, the French-Canadian poster boy of MMA. This young stud, better known as GSP, is the current UFC welterweight champion and a global superstar in the making.

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Dana White Interview back\slash: Tell our readers a little bit about some of the obstacles you had to overcome in building the UFC. White: When we took over the UFC, it was a dying brand that had burned a lot of bridges that we had to rebuild. There were so many misconceptions about the sport that had to be corrected through education, and then the next step was getting this regulated by state athletic commissions around the country. So what we did was run towards regulation while the previous owners ran from it. Once we educated people about the sport and got it regulated and back on Pay-PerView television, we weren’t going to be stopped. back\slash: How do you counter the argument that UFC is a violent sport, and that it promotes violence amongst the youth who follow it? White: This is a contact sport, just like football, hockey, boxing, basketball, and soccer. What separates our sport from the ones I just mentioned is that the UFC has a track record of safety that no other contact sport can touch. In our nearly 17 year history, there has never been a serious injury or death in the Octagon, and each event is monitored by state athletic commissions. And I may be biased, but there is no better sport for young people than mixed martial arts. It builds character and discipline, keeps kids in shape, and teaches traditional martial arts values.

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Paintball makes a comeback in the 305 _ Ivan Flores \\ FIU

everyday citizens shoot up police and military servicemen at this underground SILO in South Florida. Unfortunately, we cannot disclose the location. But places like this are everywhere...

he sounds of automatic fire ring out and echo through the grey graffiti-marked building; in between the bursts of fire people yell out “get some.” People in different uniforms run back and forth clearing rooms, and searching for ‘the enemy.’ This isn’t Iraq 2003, this is The Silo, the world of underground paintball. Located off Krome Ave, and nestled in the woods, The Silo is the place where renegade paintballers meet up for fast-paced, unregulated action. Formerly a federal building, The Silo is now abandoned due to, of all things, budget cuts. The building was then taken over by the taggers, junkies, high school kids looking to drink and get laid, and finally, the paintballers. The Silo plays host to an eclectic mix

of paintballers - not just kids too poor to afford sanctioned games, or heavily tattooed would-be gangsters living out violent shootout fantasies. Look around the police and the military also come to The Silo for a little action.

The History

Paintball started out in the early 80’s as a stalking game. The original concept was to emulate the action found in Richard Connell's 1924 fiction, (later made into a movie): The Most Dangerous Game, in which a big game hunter, marooned on an island, chooses to hunt humans for sport. The first paintball game was played like Capture the Flag, and won without firing a single shot. The game has evolved as new technology has become available. Paintball markers [the word "gun" is eschewed by many players because of implied violence], were originally single action, in which only one paintball could be fired each time the weapon was cocked. Current paintball markers are available in semi-automatic and fully automatic. Fully automatic markers are cocked once afterwhich a barrage of paintballs, traveling 300 feet per second, can be fired.

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Different game rules can be used, and the most common game played at The Silo is a team death match. Two opposing teams start at different ends of The Silo and work towards each other until one team is eliminated.

The Police

The Silo is less than five miles away from a major police department. The officers, and occasionally dispatchers, come out on Fridays to relieve stress that has built up from being on patrol or cooped up in the office. Most of the officers are coworkers from the same department, although some officers come from as far away as Homestead to join the games. Some of the officers have military backgrounds, ranging from Army Special Forces to Air Force flight mechanics. A few of the officers have been trained in SWAT tactics and they use these skills to their advantage during their games. While running into the dilapidated building, the police play by stalking each other, moving slowly and using silent hand signals as the only form of communication until the first shot is fired.

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The Paintballers

Aside from some older police and military personnel, most players are in their 20’s and play just to “shoot the shit” said John, who for legal reasons did not want his actual named used. John works at the Miami International Airport as a construction worker. He is also in the National Guard. Sporting Army camouflage, John joins a team of paintballers for a few rounds of team death match. John leads the rag tag team of paintballers through the graffitied building as if he was leading men into actual combat. Before the team can start playing the game, John insists on teaching them strategy, flanking maneuvers, basic hand signals, and the best places to take cover. They all nod knowingly but their eyes have glazed over, for the most part. As soon as they run into the building, the first shot is fired from the opposing team. It takes out one of John's teammates and sends the rest of the team into chaos. Everyone runs in a different direction than what was discussed and the strategy falls apart. After a friendly fire incident, John's team is down to just himself and his friend, whom we’ll call Max. John and Max get caught in an open space, and the opposing team fires from three different directions.

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Max is hit almost instantly. John gets shot in the face, turning his black mask a bright shade of pink.

Legalities

As of April 14th the Department of Homeland Security has been kicking the paintballers out of the Silo. The Department of Homeland Security entered The Silo and informed the players that they were trespassing on federal property. According to one of the police officers, who wished to remain anonymous due to the nature of the situation, the Department of Homeland Security has started to enforce the trespassing law because there have been, "a few rapes and murders." The Department of Homeland Security also informed the police officer that they have found convicted felons with high powered weapons shooting at targets inside the building and have since started to conduct daily raids. With stricter enforcement of the trespass law it seems that paintball, at The Silo, has seen its last days. However, many of the paintballers, including the police, have relocated to the wooded area off of 8th street. According to a police officer, who wished to remain anonymous, "It sucks because we have no where else to play."

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JOKER \\ Of the Issue Congratulations, NBC: not only did you throw away the one major prospect you had going for you, you’re still miserably riding the bench as the perennially underachieving fourth-place network in America. The short-lived marriage between NBC and Conan O’Brien magnifies just how sleazy and dysfunctional the network and its executives have become. In perhaps the all-time faux-pas in the history of network television, NBC tapped Conan to carry the Tonight Show franchise for decades to come, and then in a move not uncommon among swindling deadbeats, infamously decided to part ways after nine months—no, Conan wasn’t about to have a baby, and he certainly wasn’t expecting his network spouse to dump him after such a short-lived tenure at his lifelong dream job; but nevertheless, NBC still got cold feet, packed their bags and left Conan in the middle of the night without so much as a thank you, just to return to their former lover, Leno. The feud officially began on January 7, 2010, when multiple media sources reported that on March 1, 2010, Leno's new, unpopular program The Jay Leno Show would be moved from the 10:00pm Eastern Time weeknight time slot to 11:35pm, and O'Brien's new program The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien would be moved from 11:35pm to 12:05am. Conan would have none of it, and soon after, publicly expressed his discontent with the change and his decision to not back down. So NBC did what many feared they would do - they axed Conan, giving him a well-deserved $45 million payout for leaving the network—$12 million of which rightfully

\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ went to his staff as severance pay—and ordered him off the air for seven months, contractually preventing him from hosting another television show until September 1, 2010. The final episode of Conan’s Tonight Show aired January 22, with superstars Tom Hanks, Steve Carell, Will Farrell and Neil Young appearing as guests. A combination of demographical disparities, shifting Nielsen ratings and angry affiliates— the Los Angeles Times reported in October 2009 that the ratings for several prominent local news broadcasts over the various NBC affiliates had fallen—drove NBC to the rash decision to oust Conan from his longtime coveted job as the Tonight Show host and reinstate Jay Leno to the show, angering scores of Conan’s loyal fans across the country. In January, a large group of his supporters showed up outside Universal Studios in Los Angeles—O’Brien’s studio for The Tonight Show for the nine months—to rally on his behalf, touting signs and mouthing angry chants directed at NBC. Similar protests were enacted across the country, with one noteworthy demonstration taking place on the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where some students dressed up like Conan and performed his famous “string dance” in his honor. The primary difference between the comedic styles of Conan and Leno is and always has been a generational one, and thus NBC has succeeded in inadvertently alienating the younger generation of late night viewers. To this younger generation, Conan was easily the funniest personality on network television. From his start as the host of Late Night with Conan O’Brien in 1993 to switching over to The Tonight Show in 2009, he successfully captured the younger audiences with his eccentric, spontaneous on-stage personality; unparalleled interaction with audiences; hilarious, signature sketches like “In the Year 2000”, “Triumph the Insult Comic Dog” and “Bogus Interviews”; and crazy new characters randomly introduced throughout the years, like the classic “Masturbating Bear” and the “Coked Up Werewolf.” While it might have been seemingly easy for Conan to walk away with his $45 million and pout in private, he has proven just how resilient and truly devoted to his craft he really is. Thanks to O’Brien and company’s “Don’t Tread On Me” mentality, on March 10, 2010, he triumphantly announced that they were going on tour to perform live at major venues in

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30 cities across the U.S. and Canada, billed as "The Legally Prohibited From Being Funny On Television Tour.” Tickets for the shows at the legendary Chicago Theatre were sold out within hours of going on sale. Between leaving the Tonight Show at the end of January and planning his comedy tour until he’s allowed back on television, Conan has managed to maintain his sanity and delight his fans with his new Twitter account started in February, which is easily the most hilarious thing to ever hit Twitter. Under his account bio, he states “I had a show. Then I had a different show. Now I have a Twitter account.” His first official tweet on February 24 at 2:54 pm read: “Today I interviewed a squirrel in my backyard and then threw to a commercial. Somebody help me.” On February 25 at 12:46 pm, he tweeted “This morning I watched Remington Steele while eating Sugar Smacks out of a salad bowl. I was naked.” When the initial change in hosting the Tonight Show was announced back in 2004, Leno expressed no opposition and was quoted as saying, "I'll be 59 when [the switch occurs], that's five years from now. There's really only one person who could have done this into his 60s, and that was Johnny Carson; I think it's fair to say I'm no Johnny Carson." In describing the prestige behind The Tonight Show that year, Leno also remarked that, "you hold it and hand it off to the next person. And I don't want to see all the fighting..." before adding, "Conan, it's yours! See you in five years, buddy!" While Leno cannot be held fully responsible for the ensuing debacle, it’s clear that he has succeeded in alienating all of Conan’s fans and even several of his own viewers. Ironically, NBC Sports head executive and former Saturday Night Live producer Dick Ebersol has been an outspoken critic of all those who have either blamed or hated on Leno recently, calling them "chicken-hearted and gutless;” yet what could be more chicken-hearted and gutless than giving a talented host the reins to his long-awaited, welldeserved dream job and then selfishly taking it all away a mere nine months later, ordering him off the air in fear of competing ratings? Come September, when his hugely-successful comedy tour is over and he has been given the greenlight to go back on the air, TBS can do nothing but lament their poor judgment and watch as Conan’s ratings on FOX demolish Leno’s tired, stupid show.

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STRIKING \\ Statistics Oregon became the first state to decriminalize marijuana in 1973…

RELIGION \\ The Church of the Universe Looking for a religion where everyone gets naked and smokes weed? Look no further than the good ol’ “Church of the Universe,” a religion created by a guy named Walter Tucker in 1969 in Ontario, Canada. As an entheogenic religion (advocating the use of a psychoactive substance for religious purposes), the Church of the Universe considers marijuana as a holy sacrament and the “Tree of Life” from the Book of Genesis (also quoting Psalm 22:30 and Revelation 22:2,14 as evidence), along with claiming that cannabis was founded in ancient Judaic practices involving Keneh-Bosm, or cannabis. Thus, members are encouraged to smoke weed and use hemp products. As an added perk, the church also promotes nudity among its members during ceremonies as a “demonstration of human equality,” as well as pointing to the concept of

nudity in the Book of Genesis with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Unfortunately, nudism is no longer practiced in several communities within the church. There are two guiding rules practiced—do not hurt yourself and do not hurt anyone else. Old Walter Tucker founded his church at a water-filled former quarry that he later renamed Clearwater Abbey in the town of Puslinch, Ontario. The abbey has been mired in controversy over the past several decades, with allegations of noisy ceremonies on the property (how fun does that sound) and the 1975 discovery of human remains nearby. So if you enjoy getting naked and smoking weed near a bunch of buried dead people up in Canada (who doesn’t?), visit the church’s official website, www.iamm.com, for more information.

DRUG \\ Psilocyblin

Holy Jesus, where to even begin with this one...Well, aside from it being one of the most totally awesome things ever, psilocybin (Latin for “Boomers”) mushrooms, a.k.a. “magic mushrooms,” are arguably the most misunderstood drug around. On a side note, I can recall a trip one time where we spent almost an hour pondering whether its pronounced “Sy-lo-ky-bin” with a soft ‘P’, as I had suspected, or whether it was “P-sil-o-ky-bin,” like my companion suggested…several strong arguments were made by each side (believe it or not), yet by the end of the hour there came a random burst of uncontrollable laughter by both parties upon watching the dog (it was a dingo) awkwardly attempt to analyze what the hell was going on, after which we could not remember for the life of us what we were talking about for that hour, and then decided to start playing the Monday Night Football song on guitar for 20 minutes… As that story goes to show, psilocybin mushrooms cause two distinct effects: uncontrollable laughter stemming from otherwise mundane hilarity, and general strangeness—depending on how much you take and how fast you take it. You might hear and see shit that’s not really there (if you’re lucky), or you might just find yourself with an altered state of perception (which is also pretty awesome…). Certain things have been found to increase the effects of psilocybin, including vitamin C—mostly ingested through a cold glass of delicious orange juice while tripping—and Grateful Dead music. Never take drugs recreationally; above article for educational purposes only.

Only 13% of illegal drug users are African Americans, yet they make up 67% of those sent to prison for drug offenses… More than 200,000 students have been denied financial aid simply because they have drug convictions… A 2001 Pew poll found that three out of four Americans feel that the Drug War has failed and can never be won…. 55% of inmates in U.S. federal prisons are there for drug offenses… U.S. taxpayers lose more than $50 billion each year thanks to the failed “War on Drugs”… Malaysian legislation provides for a mandatory death penalty for convicted drug traffickers. Individuals arrested in possession of 15 grams (1/2 ounce) of heroin or 200 grams (seven ounces) of marijuana are presumed by law to be trafficking in drugs… Author Jenny Paul claims in her book Brad Pitt and Angeline Jolie: The True Story, that back in 2005 Brad Pitt nearly got himself and his wife arrested for pot possession in Kenya. It was reported that the famous actors got so loud in their lovemaking that Kenyan police burst in their hotel room. But the author claims the truth is the cops were called because someone in the hotel smelled marijuana. Police came and raided the couple's room but found nothing… According to a November 2002 TIME/CNN poll, 80% of Americans approve of marijuana for medical use… The first American law concerning cannabis was passed by the Virginia General Assembly in 1619, which required every household to grow hemp since it was viewed as a “strategic necessity”…

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In March, election officials in South Dakota certified Measure 13, the South Dakota Safe Access Act, for the November ballot. If approved by voters, Measure 13 would exempt state criminal penalties for the possession of up to one ounce of marijuana or six plants by authorized patients — making South Dakota the fifteenth state to legalize medicinal cannabis use.

Q: What do Disney and Viagra have in common? Have a lifetime supply of pot but never be A: They both make you wait 45 minutes for a three allowed sex again, or a lifetime supply of sex minute ride. but never be allowed pot again?

That same week in California, election officials confirmed that the Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010 will appear on the November ballot. If approved, the measure will allow adults 21 years or older to possess, share or transport up to one ounce of cannabis for personal, recreational consumption, and/or cultivate the plant in an area of not more than twenty-five square feet per private residence. It will also permit local governments the option to authorize the retail sale of marijuana and/or commercial cultivation of cannabis to adults and to impose taxes on such sales. Personal marijuana cultivation or not-for-profit sales of marijuana would not be taxed under the measure. On March 5, 2010, Rhode Island lawmakers introduced legislation to legalize and tax the production, distribution, and personal use of marijuana for adults 21 and older.

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Q: What’s the difference between Tiger Woods Smoke weed with Bob Marley or Jesus? and a golf club? A: A golf club always sticks to one hole at a time. Switch places for a day with Spider-Man or Batman? Q: How do you know you’re a true pothead? A: You studied five days for a urine test. Have to drink yourself out of a full tank of beer to survive or pilot to safety a rogue plane Q: How do fish party? of hookers and drugs with no captain or coA: Seaweed. captain? Q: Who makes more money, a drug dealer or a Steal a cub from a grizzly bear or an egg from hooker? a pterodactyl? A: A hooker, because she can wash her crack and use it again. Drive a horse and buggy for the rest of your life, or rock Zack's phone from 'Saved by the Q: How do you hide pot from a hippie? bell' (yes, no internet or applications)? A: Put it in his work boots.

A New Hampshire bill to reduce marijuana possession to a fine-only offense passed the state House 214-137 on March 19, 2010.

The Keg Stand Position \\ Don't even think about trying this one unless you can squat the same weight as the chick—this position requires plenty of strength and a general “can-do” attitude. The dude should start from the sitting 69 position, sitting down in a fairly high chair and helping the chick move into position, with the chick placing her head between the dude’s legs while wrapping her own legs loosely around the his neck and shoulders, and the arms tightly around his back. The dude then wraps his own arms tightly around the back of the chick and stands up carefully (keeping his own back as straight as possible), while paying very close attention to her head and neck 52

so as not to knock or strain them. For added kicks, try timing yourselves each time and attempting to beat your former record like it’s an actual keg stand. Welcome to College \\ A great position to eliminate shaking of the bed and excessive noise for your neighbors. Basically, the chick stands up and bends forward with legs slightly spread and with both hands on her knees while the dude thrusts away from behind, holding her torso for support. When the dude finishes, he sarcastically exclaims “welcome to college!” (optional, obviously; be smart about it…). Ultimately, an ideal position for quick, efficient sex and a nice laugh afterwards between classes.

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The Cross-Room High Five \\ This one is not as much a position as it is a ritual, so to speak. It involves four people at once, but not together. Basically, you and your roommate each arrange to have sex with someone at the same time, and at some point while you and your roommate are getting laid with the two lucky ladies, you randomly throw out a high five to each other in mid-air from across the room like nothing is happening. What better way to bond with your roommate than each getting laid at the same time while exchanging a solid high five from across the room?

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FOOD \\ Recipes herb Butter Ratio: 1.5 sticks of butter per every ¼ oz of herbal remedy

Drink \\ Recipe MIAMI FREEZE 1. Combine 2-3 scoops of your favorite sherbet (I recommend watermelon) 2. Add 1-2 oz of your favorite flavored vodka (try to match with the sherbet flavor) 3. Add a splash of ginger ale 4. Mix together in a blender 5. Take a glass and wet the rim with water, then dip it into sugar 6. Pour the MIAMI FREEZE into the glass 7. Slice a piece of your favorite fruit in the center and place it on the glass 8. ENJOY! (Watch out for a brain freeze.)

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DRINKING Game \\ Bear Pong

If you like shooting hoops while getting shitfaced and are sick and tired of beer pong, we've got just the game for you. BEARPONG is an oversized portable Beer Pong game that can be played anywhere (dorm hallways, bars, the beach, your back yard, tailgates, poolside, cookouts and anywhere you have a little bit of extra space). The game does not require tables and is extremely portable. BEARPONG is perfect the perfect way to turn ANYWHERE into a beer pong match! The patent-pending weighted buckets and unique carrying case have proven to be a big hit at colleges across the US. The BEARPONG name continues to gain momentum and recognition as an essential game for unrestrained students. You can find the portable game at www.bearpong.com

DRINKING Game \\ HALF 8TH, HALF CASE, AND A PIZZA RACE

This game is simple and social. To start, you need a teammate (preferably one who smokes trees, can eat a shit-load of pizza, and knows how to chug some beer). Now you need at least 5 other teams to compete against. The rules are simple. You and your teammate race the other teams to eat a medium pizza, smoke a halfeighth of herb, and drink a half case of beer (a 12 pack) together. In order to finish as fast as possible, go ahead and take advantage of your resources: like funnels and fat blunts. I once saw a team try to use a bong, thinking it would make smoking the herb easier... horrible idea... it took them forever and they were LIFTED!... Another time I saw a team blend up the pizza, the herb, and beer, in a blender, and try to chug it... Even stupider... they puked almost immediately. The secret is rolling a fat blunt, while you're drinking the beers, and then eat the pizza while you burn. I saw a team do it in 22 minutes. Don't choke and don't drive after. PLEASE DRINK RESPONSIBLY

Directions: 1. Cut butter into cubes 2. Place the butter into a pot and begin to melt it with very low heat 3. Once butter is almost totally melted add the (broken-up) herbal remedy 4. Cook on a very low simmer (to prevent the butter from burning) for 20-30 minutes, stirring occasionally (every five minutes or so). 5. Strain butter over a small bowl into a cheesecloth. (a metal strainer may be used, but small pieces of your herbal remedy will remain in the butter) 6. Squeeze the liquid butter into the small bowl until all that remains in the cheesecloth is the remnants of the herbal remedy. 7. Cover the small bowl and place into the refrigerator and let it cool, until it forms into a solid again. 8. Use butter in any recipe or with any food that you want to make MAGICAL!

1. 2 Sticks of herbal butter (1/2 lb of butter) 2. 1 cup of brown sugar 3. ¾ cup sugar 4. 2 eggs 5. 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 6. 2 cups all purpose flour 7. 1 teaspoon baking soda 8. 1 teaspoon salt 9. 1 ½ cup chocolate chips Directions: 1. Preheat oven to 350 F and grease a cookie sheet with herbal butter 2. Mix herbal butter and both sugars together until fluffy, then add vanilla and eggs, mixing well. 3. Mix in dry ingredients, stirring thoroughly, then add the chocolate chips 4. Using a spoon, scoop out batter, forming small balls and place evenly on greased cooking sheet. 5. Bake 8-10 minutes on the middle rack, then check with a toothpick to make sure they are done (if toothpick is wet: cook for extra 2 minutes; if it is dry: take out the cookies and let them cool) 6. Remove cookies from the cookie sheet and place on a baking sheet for around 5 minutes to cool 7. ENJOY with a movie, tv show, or some music! volume 22 issue issue 33 \\ \\ april april -- may may \\ \\ volume

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http://hightimes.com/public/cancup/ The High Times Cannabis Cup is exactly what it sounds like: a festival of competitive weed, as judged by you, the smoker (if you can afford a trip to the Netherlands). At Cannabis Cup, the public is invited to indulge in a phenomenal smorgasbord of the strongest strains of marijuana in the world, all homegrown and created by various experts at growing. Participants are then asked to judge the various strains by rating what they smoke. A team of VIP judges then decides the champion among the strains, while the judges-at-large decide the Cannabis Cup, best new product, best booth, best glass, best hash and best Nederhash. Always held in Amsterdam during the week of Thanksgiving, the 23rd Annual Cannabis Cup will be held from November 21-25, 2010. Pre-registration (to avoid long opening day lines) begins on November 19 and 20.

The “Dude Where’s My Lighter?” App – For all those times you’re out and about or on the go with a nicely prepared joint but forgot to bring a light, this lovely app works hand-in-hand with the Bic Corporation to automatically locate the closest place of sale for Bic lighters.

http://www.youtube.com/templedragon420 A YouTube channel with over 150 tasty videos related to marijuana, this site features a nice combination of informational, comedic, musical and conspiratorial videos. Standouts include an informative lecture video entitled “Was Jesus a Stoner?” which actually presents legitimate evidence that Jesus used cannabis, and an interview with former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura in which he entertains the notion of being a judge at Cannabis Cup, entitled “Meet Governor Jesse Ventura.”

http://www.friendsofcannabis.com/ Ever wondered if your favorite athlete, actress or singer is a pothead? This site provides a list of “hemp heroes, pot stars, celebrity stoners and famous friends of cannabis,” with updated news stories pertaining to pot usage among celebrities. http://www.420space.com/ An online dating service for marijuana smokers to meet and interact. The site also features marijuana news, photos, videos, polls and upcoming events for the casual and hardcore stoner alike. http://rawlings4congress.info/ This is a campaign site set up to introduce Richard Rawlings to the people of the Illinois 18th district as a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives as well as the leading presidential candidate for the U.S. Marijuana Party (a legitimate, one-platform political party with Libertarian views). Rawlings has based his campaign around a solid platform of “Cannabis, Hemp and Medical Marijuana,” as the website proudly boasts. Easily the best thing about this website is the picture of Rawlings, an old hippie with long hair wearing a t-shirt, jeans and sunglasses while smoking a joint. That’s right—people legitimately think this guy can run for president.

The Drum Circle App – For anyone walking around campus after smoking and just felt that classic, uncontrollable craving for making random drum beats with strangers out in public places, look no further than this app, which features small icons representing different drum sounds that you can simply tap with your finger and jam the day away. The “Late Night Menu” App – How many times have you been stricken with an intense craving for fast food munchies at some ungodly hour of the night and had to go on the internet to see who’s still got the drive-thru open? With this app, you’ll always have the one-up on your disgusting propensity for late night fast food. The “Name That Strain” App – The next time you want to impress your friends/customers with some ridiculous name for your nugs but have no idea what its actually called, here’s an app that allows you to take a snapshot of your nugs and checks a database of thousands of different strains to either tell you the correct name or the next closest thing; if there are no matches, then the app spits out some random, goofy sounding two-word name using a formula of location for the first word and silly sounds for the second word, like “Serbian PowWow” or “Danish Goop.” The “Fuzzbuster” App – Now you can enjoy the same warning about nearby police radars as your car’s radar detector with the “Fuzzbuster” app, which serves as a tiny radar within your iPhone that can detect nearby police radars so that you don’t have to keep looking over your shoulders during those campus “blunt walks.”

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h t t p : / / w w w. y o u t u b e . c o m / u s e r / thapopeofdope Another YouTube channel featuring all marijuana related videos, with several hilarious comedic sketches. Standouts here are the videos of U.S. troops smoking weed in Afghanistan and the Bill Hicks standup routine about why weed is illegal. The site also includes a forum for subscribers of the channel to interact with each other and with the “Pope of Dope” himself. http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=93jQI_6G5Cw (or search “Katt Williams weed”) One of the funniest standup routines on YouTube about weed, starring hilarious comedian Katt Williams from the Def Comedy Jam: “There is a chemical in weed that’s called ‘Fuckit,’” says Williams at one point, “and if you could just get that in your system it could change your life.”

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attempt would have failed. The idea of President Clinton leading a marijuana legalization effort at the same time of the scandals leading to his impeachment is utterly ridiculous to think about – in his position, he probably made the right decision (on the marijuana issue, that is, probably not the scandals). But things are different today. A recent poll by ABC News and the Washington Post (01/18/2010) found: 81% of Americans support legalizing marijuana for medical use, 56% are in favor of allowing doctors to prescribe it for anyone they think it will help, and 46% support legalizing marijuana for personal use – up from 30% in 2002 and 22% in 1997. If there’s ever been a time that the public would support reforming federal pot laws, this is the time. And unlike during the Clinton Administration, the Democrats control both houses of Congress, and it’s possible that some of the younger libertarian-leaning “Tea Party” Republicans new to Congress will favor states’ rights in the area of marijuana laws. All of this ought to give President Obama some food for thought (or munchies, if you will). While campaigning for the Democratic nomination, he was anything but blunt – wisely and skillfully, he narrowed the issue to whether the Justice Department should be going after cancer-stricken patients acting within state laws, repeatedly asserting that “I would not have the Justice Department prosecuting and raiding

medical marijuana users. It's not a good use of our resources.” And indeed, his administration has acted on this campaign stance: in 2009, the U.S. Justice Department ordered an end to federal prosecutions of medical marijuana patients and distributors in “clear and unambiguous compliance” with state laws. While Attorney General Eric Holder maintains that “we will not tolerate drug traffickers,” this action does signal that, at least for now, users in the states with relaxed marijuana laws can inhale easy without having to worry about federal agents knocking down their doors. However, this situation may not last forever – as long as the only thing preventing federal raids is presidential policy, all it takes for things to change back is the next administration entering the White House and deciding to enforce federal marijuana laws. The only way things will really change is if the law itself is changed. It is not surprising that attempts at marijuana reform legislation like the Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act of 2009 have been unsuccessful, given the all-powerful lobbies of industries like pharmaceuticals, tobacco, law enforcement, and corrections, all facing so much lost business. And while the ending of federal prosecutions of medical marijuana users is certainly a good sign, President Obama’s public laughing-off of the marijuana issue is hurting any hope for real, permanent change on this issue. His hesitance to take stronger action is understandable, given that the demographic most opposed to marijuana reform – senior citizens – remains the largest

spending their non-waking life. I was a drifter, potentially unstable and therefore inherently dangerous to those with waiting beds. A collar would be called for. And a close shave. The lone stall in that particular Banyan men’s room has long been a major chat room of graffiti, so I sat, dandily collared, with nowhere to be, on the john reading the chains of communication, piecing together remnants of the periodic white-washings, scanning for a prescient quote or insult or musing or plea or revelation.

Fuck Life, Smoke One the toilet paper dispenser urged me. Jesus will save your poor lost soul, the door told the apparent smoker, and maybe me too. Call 305-404-5999 for a fun time with Prof. Bowman! the toilet paper dispenser offered. $5 off if you mention this coupon, it added in smaller letters. www.newamericancentury.org the wall behind the handle reminded Banyan flushers. In the center of the most recent brushes of janitorial white wash, next to Southern colleges suck, I wrote:

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voting group in elections. Nonetheless, among a significant majority of the public, it is high time for changes to federal marijuana laws. During his 1932 presidential election campaign, FDR ran on repealing alcohol prohibition, primarily because of the new tax revenues to result. On December 5, 1933, in the midst of the Great Depression, Congress ratified the 21st Amendment, repealing the 18th Amendment and ending alcohol prohibition. President Roosevelt told the nation: “What America needs now is a drink.” After our nation saw the negative criminal and gang-related effects of alcohol prohibition in the 1920's, they decided that the experiment was a failure. Today, marijuana prohibition causes the imprisonment and criminalization of countless numbers of non-violent mostlyminority first-time users, the aggravation of the drug cartel wars in Mexico, and the social stigmatization of the millions of successful and productive marijuana users across the country. Between all of this and America’s worst economic times since the Great Depression, what our nation needs now is a puff – not to mention new tax revenues, an end to financial support of the Mexican drug wars, and legal recognition of the American public’s acceptance of marijuana. To be blunt: President Obama should lead an effort to pass legislation guaranteeing that marijuana users in compliance with their state’s laws will never be prosecuted under federal law for marijuana offenses. Even the most paranoid of us could believe in that "Change".

I will camp here on campus until either a) I have become an artist or b) I am eaten by the crocodile in the lake.

Then I flushed, for appearances, though I turned out to have the men's room to myself. I spent the rest of the evening in the Well, writing, nursing a corncob full of chronic, and listening to a dub remix of Sgt. Pepper on repeat. Brushing my teeth that night, back at the men’s room, I noticed someone had already responded to my pledge. Yo, the croc was poached a month ago. Where have you been?

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3 \\ Cervezas 5 8 3 5 S unset D ri v e M iami , F L 3 3 1 4 3 (305) 397-8125 Let me get this out of the way first: Cervezas is about the size of a shoe box. Luckily, what it lacks in size it makes up for in selection, of beer that is: over 200 cold ones, from hard to pronounce microbrews to the expectable big label brands that most other beer shops would shun. There’s not a martini in sight, and the choice of wine is red or white, so come with an open mind and the crew at Cervezas will help you find just the right longneck, most of which will only set you back 4 to 6 bucks.

4 \\ Kill your idol 3 4 5 6 N o rth M iami Av E M iami , F L 3 3 1 2 7 (305) 576-5570 The guys that own Vagabond are at it again, this time bringing the hipster/punk/ crazy fun to the beach. With wall-towall local art, an original Playboy pinball machine, classic board games, and a fully functional vinyl juke box, this place is sure to develop a cult following similar to its midtown sister. KYI opened only in March so they’re still working out a nightly lineup, but Wednesday is ladies night and rumor has it they might develop an electrofunk-house night. Even better, PBR drafts are $3 and shots are only $5! What’s for certain is KYI offers a much needed, fresh alternative to all the garbage on sobe… and unlike downtown, there won’t be homeless people sleeping on your car when you get out!

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Local happy hour guide: miami

2884 SW 27th Avenue Coconut Grove FL (305) 448-2111 Happy Hour M-F 4- 7pm 50% of the entire bar!

DORAL ALE HOUSE

3271 NW 87th Ave, Doral, FL (305) 629-9442 M-F $1 drinks $1.50 beers, 5 bottles for $6.95 Sunday and Monday: $3 pitchers w/ fingers $2 wells every day all day

B O U G A I N VILL E A S 7221 SW 58th Ave, S. Miami, FL (305) 669-8577 $5 Black Label $3 Bud Light

Indos h i ne 638 S. MIami Ave Miami, FL 33139 (305) 379-1525 5-7pm $5 Cocktails $4 Wine $3 bottled beer

7221 SW 58th Ave, S. Miami, FL (305) 669-8577 Reggae Night

TOOTSIE'S CABERET

150 NW 183rd St, Miami, FL (305) 651-5822 1/2 off all drinks noon-8pm

QUArTERDECK SO.BEACH

1430 Alton Rd, Miami Beach, FL (305) 531-2441 3-7pm (M-F) ½ price wells ½ price beers ½ price house wine 50 cent oysters 35 cent p&e shrimp and wings

C a r r i ngton ' s 9555 S Dixie Hwy Miami, FL 33156

(305) 667-9673 College Night, $2 pitchers

BOTECO B R A Z ILI A N B A R 916 NE 79th St, Miami, FL (305) 757-7735‎ Ladies night 7pm-11:30pm

NMB ALE HOUSE

3227 NE 163rd St North Miami Beach, FL (305) 945-6878 Ladies drink free 8 - 12am

MARTINI BAR

Thursday

B e r r i es i n t h e Grove

B O U G A I N VILL E A S

Wednesday

8575 SW 124th Ave Miami, FL (305) 412-2220 Bucket night 5 Domestic for $10 5 Imports for $15

Tuesday

monday G AT S B Y ' S

SANDBAR

3426 Main Hwy, Miami, FL (305) 444-5270 $3 bottled beer specials

T He C l e v e l ande r

5701 Sunset Drive, Suite 124A Miami, FL (305) 665-3052 Ladies drink free martinis all night

1020 Ocean Drive, Miami FL (305) 532-4006 5-7pm 1/2 off all drinks

T r ans i t Lounge

G AT S B Y ' S

729 S.W. 1st Ave. Miami, FL 33130 (305) 377-4628 $5 Jack all Night

8575 SW 124th Ave Miami, FL (305) 412-2220 Ladies drink ½ off all day and night

E l ect r i c P i ck l e

T o w n k i tc h en and ba r

2826 N Miami Ave Miami, FL 33127-3932 (305) 456-5613 Ladies drink free 10pm-11:30pm

B l u Ma r t i n i 900 S. Miami Ave Miami, Fl 33130 (305) 377-8838 Ladies night 1st martini Free

A bbe y B r e w i ng 1115 16th Street

Miami Beach, FL 33139 $1 off all beers

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7301 SW 57 Court, S. Miami, FL (305) 741-8118 Ladies Night 4-7pm Complimentary Champagne

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S C U LLY ' S

9809 SW 72nd St Miami, FL (305) 271-7404 3pm-7pm $3-6/ 2-4-1 gin, vodka, rum

PA Q U I T O ' S

16265 Biscayne Blvd Aventura, FL (305) 947-5027 Freaky Fridays rule at this Mexican joint 4pm-7pm and 11pm-midnight. dj's and margaritas 2-41 Coronas and Presidente

C HILLI ' S I N KENDAL

11900 SW 88th Street Miami, FL (305) 596-5025 2 for 1 almost all drinks except ultra premium and super premium.. Muy calenite

ALABAMA J acks

58000 Card Sound Road South Dade Miami, FL (305) 248-8741 Great food, cheap drinks, great crowd and location. Enjoy on the water dining and the sounds of the Cardsound Mystery Machine every weekend.

C HILLI ' S I N KENDAL

11900 SW 88th Street Miami, FL (305) 596-5025 2 for 1 almost all drinks except ultra premium and super premium.. Muy calenite

jUSTINS AV E N T U R A

17813 Biscayne Blvd, Aventura, FL (305) 931-1900 Ladies drink free all night

BOTECO bR A Z ILI A N B A R 916 NE 79th St, Miami, FL (305) 757-7735‎ Drinks $6 -9...Very promising for the ladies who love to dance

BOUGAINVILLAS

7221 SW 58th Ave, S. Miami, FL‎ (305) 669-8577 Calling waiters. 50% for in the biz all day with your pay stub

T r ans i t Lounge

729 S.W. 1st Ave. Miami, FL 33130 (305) 377-4628 $1 Drafts all night

J az i d

1342 Washington Ave Miami Beach, FL 33139 (305) 673-9372 $4 Kamakazes

J ake ' s B a r

1342 Washington Ave Miami Beach, FL 33139 (305) 673-9372 $3 Sierra Nevada Discount watermelon martinis

everyday

3227 NE 163rd St North Miami Beach, FL (305) 945-6878 $7 beer buckets 3pm-6 pm 50 cent oysters, 25 cent wings and peel and eat shrimp

MARTINI BAR

5701 Sunset Drive, Suite 124A Miami, FL (305) 665-3052 One of the only clubs in South Miami open until 5am Ladies get in free ALL NIGHT and get a complimentary Cosmopolitan on Saturdays

sunday

NMB ALE HOUSE

saturday

Friday

f s S E

MARTINI BAR

5701 Sunset Drive, Suite 124A Miami, FL (305) 665-3052 Tues-Fri 5pm-9pm 2-4-1 you call it

pA Q U I T O S

16265 Biscayne Blvd Aventura, FL (305) 947-5027 M-F 4pm-7pm buy one get one free corona & presidente, specials on house margaritas

Ya r d h ouse r estau r ant at v i l l age o f Me r R i ck Pa r k 230 San Lorenzo Ave Miami, FL (305) 447-9273 M-F 6pm-Close Sun-Wed 10pm-Close Select Half Price Pizzas and Appetizers $3.50 Pints $6.00 Martinis

P U r d y Lounge 1811 Purdy Ave Miami Beach, FL (305) 531-4622 M-F 3-7 But One Get One Free Drinks

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