I don't know if anyone already posted this... Pretty brave kid. Teen accepts penalty for marijuana speech | The News Tribune - Education | Seattle-Tacoma News, Weather, Sports, Jobs, Homes and Cars | South Puget Sound's Destination
When i first saw your name, I thought "Wow, really? Somebody taking my name and trying to piss me off?" Then I saw your join date...weird!
http://forum.grasscity.com/general-...d/402520-kid-busted-smoking-joint-school.html This is only the 4th or 5th thread on this kid.
what a hero hope he does follow his interest into polotics! but once again the babylon came down on him and try to fuckup his future! this is what happens they give u a criminal record so that many doors to a good future are now closed! wonder what type of parents he has! id put money on it that there not juges or high ranking police officers! if they were then he would of just been sent home to mum and dad i bet
dude, that is amazing. what a hero standin up for whats right and what he believes in big ups to that dude
He makes me feel like a coward. His strategy is the best we have, the same one that Martin Luther King Jr. learned from Gandhi: Non-violent Civil disobedience, Rosa Parks style. That student is a hero.. I'll never forget about this article, I'm going to bookmark it.
This is great it will show that mj it's self doesn't harm your future its the laws against the plant that's harmful to your future.
To compare what this kid did to Gandhi or MLK is just offensive. I know people who have risked their homes, families, careers, and reputations built over 20 or 30 years to fight for you and this cause. And you want to martyr this kid because he might spend a day or two in jail and mommy and daddy might ground him. This kid got his 15 minutes of fame, and legalization efforts just got knocked back several years.
The legalization movement has never supported kids smoking, especially not in school. We can't support this type of "activism". http://forum.grasscity.com/general-...usted-smoking-joint-school-9.html#post4830885 http://forum.grasscity.com/general-...usted-smoking-joint-school-9.html#post4833080
Oh no, here we go again. People comparing this guy to the likes of Ghandi, MLK and Rosa Parks. The legalization of Marijuana trivial compared to the issues of civil rights and segregation. That, and the kid didn't really jeopardize his life. What's going to happen to him, suspension for 3 days, then he goes back to school, "big man on campus"? Being an avid supporter of legalization has become sort of this really trendy, Romantic idea to younger tokers, and I am sure copy-cat publicity stuntists will be quick to follow in the steps of this kid. Luckily, for the LOVE of GOD, this kid didn't go about representing himself as NORML, or any real organization. As long as he is representing himself, I don't think any real harm is done.
My comparison to civil rights leaders only extends to the notion that both of them performed civil disobedience, in a non-violent manner. I didn't anywhere mention that I thought MLK, Gandhi, and this student were somehow equal in other ways. Sorry if you got the wrong idea. Also, you didn't provide us with a reason for why you think legalization got knocked back. You mentioned 15 minutes of fame as if you're suggesting this person did this for the attention, which to put it mildly, is inaccurate. I completely disagree with you, I think it's the actions of lone heroes with the courage to back up their beliefs that make the most progress. The argument that he was a minor(17 years old as opposed to 18) is a red herring in this debate. For those who don't know what that is, that is an argument with little relevance to the points being addressed. The point I'm addressing is that civil disobedience, non-violence, and reasonable words(What this student did) is the recipe for change.
Why do people have such a crab up their ass when they see a young kid do something they never did at that age? Damn, it's like you can't even give the dude respect that he wrote something he was passionate about and took action.