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  • Students Essay: Legalize Marijuana - Seattle News Story - KIRO Seattle

    As a supporter of marijuana staying illegal, I have to say this is an eye opener. Just to realize that someone who supposedly smokes marijuana regularly have this much charisma is enough to persuade one. If Ian could cite his resources on the quotes and supporters of marijuana, I think the essay... more

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  • Rated by toxicpanda on Jul 19, 8:34pm

    ya, in-text citations would help his cause a lot. so would one or two more times through the proofreading process (or just once, not high. i wrote all of my 100 and 200 level papers blazed and found a sober proofreading helped a lot). maybe kiro.com didnt want to publish the whole thing? either way, his bold act got attention. funny they didnt mention that he is a 3.7 GPA student and this was for his extra-curricular English class. a pot-head doing extra-curricular activities? thats unheard of.

  • Reviewed by flantheman on Jun 18, 5:57pm

    nice essay, props to the kid on being ballsy and smoking a joint on the stage. at least he wasn't drunk, if he was he'd have slurred through the speech then puked. and probably gotten into a fight.

  • Rated by jilz on Jun 12, 4:17pm

    As a supporter of marijuana staying illegal, I have to say this is an eye opener. Just to realize that someone who supposedly smokes marijuana regularly have this much charisma is enough to persuade one. If Ian could cite his resources on the quotes and supporters of marijuana, I think the essay would be looked at much more professionally. Ian's essay reminded me of my centrism and how the government could benefit from staying in the middle. I've honestly changed my opinion after reading this, but we still need more proof. The essay is very convincing, but there are too many errors. And on the last bit, it was Peter Tosh, not Bob Marley, who said "Legalize it, don't criticize it". Very persuasive though.

  • Reviewed by snarfeh on Jun 11, 4:51pm

    Bravo! So he made some grammatical mistakes. So what? It was still better than what I read from most adults here on SU. I still applaud his essay. I do wish someone who knows him would set up a donation web site for his defense. I'd damn sure contribute!

  • Rated by thelibertywell on Jun 11, 11:21am

    I'd say this is a pretty good paper, especially for a paper done by a high school student. Sure there are the occasional immature remarks, but that can be expected from any teenager writing a paper. I wonder what grade the kid got on his paper...

  • Reviewed by insanityrising on Jun 11, 12:39am

    Props for citing Immortal Technique in a school paper, but he really fucking needs to work on his academic writing. While I support his position, I agree that this paper is less than satisfactory (even for a high school student).

  • Reviewed by Jslack3 on Jun 10, 2:05pm

    This isn't very well-written at all. While the content is meaningful, it's a very unprofessionally written essay. There are no in-text citations for many of his claims, which is a shame, because it takes away credence from his poignant statements. There are many grammar mistakes. In addition, he makes several unprofessional and irrelevant claims, i.e. "not to mention his pig faced features". Claims like these make you less of a statement-maker and more of a slanderer.

  • Reviewed by Jayky on Jun 10, 2:01pm

    Anyone notice that the statistics state that 20,000 people die a year from legal drugs, and yet with tobacco 400,000 people die a year? I'm pretty sure that Tobacco's a drug, especially since the list was specifically of annual drug deaths. Consistency, consistency -- if there's anything that people should be, it's consistent.At any rate, I still agree that Marijuana should be legalized. It's good that he at least got a little bit of publicity for the cause, I think.