Our Affair With Ron Paul: Love or Lust?
Categories: Current Events
Ron Paul has captivated Gen Y in a major way. But are his Ayn Randian politics what American kids are really looking for these days? Or is he just a symptom of a generation fed-up with an unreliable system?
The Washington Marijuana Laws and Why Millennials Should Care
Categories: Current Events
This has happened before, and is not necessarily news, but why should millennials care?
The War on Drugs is wasting our time, money and lives
Categories: Drug Week
The War on Drugs has affected young, non-violent drug offenders especially hard. Because, more often than not, drugs are first introduced to people during adolescence, it only makes sense that young people should have to deal with the legal ramifications of drug use. However, the cycle of penalization for drug deterrence takes a toll on our generation.
Legalize! Why it’s time to end Nixon’s legacy
Categories: Drug Week
Once upon a time, a racially-charged, paranoia-driven warhawk of a Quaker was our President. Right now, despite our dire economy and record unemployment, we are spending hundreds of billions of dollars every year to continue a failing crusade against drugs, primarily marijuana, one that Nixon engineered. Seventy-five percent of people under age 34 favor legalization – let’s just do it already!
Keep weed illegal! Here’s why
Categories: Drug Week
Does legalizing drugs make the United States a better place to live? Like many other subjective questions, there are trade-offs to both sides. The legalization of pot in the United States wouldn’t solve the huge problem facing Mexico – if anything, it would draw less attention to the larger issues at hand and the drug trade would continue.
Hotboxing the Oval: A look into Presidential drug use
Categories: Drug Week
Presidents are people, just like us. Especially the presidents we’ve grown up with. The Millennials are watching, and we see Presidents Obama, Bush, and Clinton as people who were just stereotypical college kids, doing the same things you can find in any dorm across the country. Plus, Kennedy, Jefferson, Washington and Pierce weren’t stone-cold sober either, and we’re ok with it.
