Yes, you’ve picked up the Express 420 issue. Not only is marijuana a hot topic in politics and on college campuses throughout the country, today is also known as a worldwide counterculture holiday, referred to as 420. On 420, many marijuana friendly folks celebrate with friends by lighting up copious amounts of cannabis.
For example, in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, a huge mushroom cloud of cannabis smoke can be seen hovering over thousands of participants at 4:20 p.m. as police watch and patrol through the haze.
Therefore, as a college publication,the Express felt readers might be interested in a second “green issue,” the 420 Issue, get it?
Many here in the news room felt that marijuana — cannabis, skunk, whatever you choose to call the glorious plant these days — has become an issue of importance in our country; especially with the November ballot giving Californians the choice to check yes or no when it comes to the Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010. This act would decriminalize marijuana possession and allows the state government to do what it does best: Tax it.
The 420 issue has been a long process of planning to ensure the content you’ll be reading properly reflects the hot issues of recreational and medicinal marijuana uses. In the Opinion section of the Express, you will find pro and con commentary on the subject, as well as an editorial comparing the dark times of prohibition to present-day reefer madness. In the Features section, we nod to marijuana culture with our 420 timeline, marking important events that have sparked interest throughout the life of marijuana.
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College students seem to be regularly associated with marijuana because this seems to be the time of experimentation for a majority of young adults, and some may find themselves actually giving a damn about worldly issues. With the passing of the Compassionate Use Act of 1996, also known as Proposition 215, many Californians, with a proper doctor’s recommendation, may medicate in the comforts of their own home.
According to an article in USA Today, “An estimated 300,000 Americans in the USA use medical marijuana, based on estimates from data on registered medical users from ASA” [Americans for Safe Access].
Bottom line, marijuana has been around forever, before you or I were alive, and it will continue to be an avenue for medicinal purposes, as well as recreation. Why are doctors prescribing pills to relieve pain that also have harmful side effects? Have you listened to all those pain relief, sleeping relief, restless leg syndrome relief, grow your eyelashes longer commercials? All these end with something along the lines of “may cause dizziness, heart attack or stroke, and in worst cases, death,” but be sure to gobble up these pills, because they’re legal, so that makes them A-OK.
We hope to enlighten all with the 420 issue by bringing you content that doesn’t reflect a typical stoner’s Saturday night at home watching Dave Chappelle’s “Half Baked”, but educates and informs our student body about the current issues around us because that’s our job. Hey, if Michael Phelps can win eight Olympic gold medals and still rip an orange water-pipe, that should speak volumes. I hope we accomplished a respectful issue with a nod to marijuana, in our second green-themed issue: the 420 issue.
