UConn student leader Sam Tracy reports, via Twitter and his blog, that the University of Connecticut has been ranked #1 among colleges for marijuana activists in the new High Times magazine guide to colleges.
“Most people will agree that our marijuana policies don’t make sense,” said Tracy, who is an incoming senior who was student government president last year. “The war on drugs has been a failure. It’s really important for students to be working to change our marijuana laws.”
Parents of incoming freshpeople I’m sure will be pleased with this distinction. I guess this means Gov. Malloy will certainly rank among High Times’ favorite state leaders.
Tracy’s blog reports that:
#1 University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT) The Huskies of UConn SSDP [Students for Sensible Drug Policy] have led the pack this year in reforming marijuana policy both on and off campus. Most notably, they played a huge role in helping pass medical marijuana legislation in Connecticut by hosting rallies, coordinating student-lobbying efforts and testifying before lawmakers. No wonder UConn won the “Campus Change” award at the 2012 International SSDP Conference in Denver this March.
I asked Tracy, who is the national board of Students for Sensible Drug Policy, whether this sends the wrong message to students. He said that’s not the point — this shows that UConn students are very involved: “It’s a great testament to how active and engaged students are politically at UConn. This is much moee about the policy side of it than the marijuana side…It’s not about how much weed they smoke.”
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34 Responses to UCONN #1 On High Times Guide To Colleges
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Hey Rick,
Way to use a stock photo from 10 years ago with the Co-Op next to Homer.
My sentiments exactly, Scott.
Maybe the person who picked it out was stoned?
No wonder why UCONN Men’s Basketball has so many thugs!
That’s a ridiculously dumb statement. Thugs? Who? Kemba Walker who graduated in 3 years with a national championship? Emeka Okafor? I guess ignorance is bliss.
Wrong, check back through the years jagoff!
Name em
Yeah, CT didn’t you know?
UConn basketball players don’t graduate – they just go to jail and murder, rape and steal from people – because they’re BLACK men who come from disadvantaged impoverished backgrounds that America is Dying only ever sees on the sound-byte news channels or a cable “documentary” about gangs. Oh, and because they listen to music with over-sized headphones that offends A-i-D’s fashion sense.
Yep. UConn basketball player’s are thugs . . . in the mind’s of myopic, intellectually stunted, social ingrate, xenophobe, know-it-all’s like the comically named “America-is-Dying”.
Get a life kid. Weed ain’t gonna help ya much next year when you’re pounding the pavement looking for a way to pay off those student loans.
yes it will…
It will help you cope with life stressors!
That was a joke… people! I couldn’t resist!
I smoked weed nearly every single day I was at UCONN and not only did I easily pay off my loans, but I also make $250K+ a year. So maybe you should get a life. Or a bag of weed
You’re full of B.S.
“America Is Dying” – the kind of handle that you’d expect from a true patriot.
BTW – UConn Alum is hardly alone the first high achiever to have toked his way through college . . . or even life.
But keep believing the fallacy created by Harry Anslinger nearly 80 years ago with no science behind him – only the ambition to preserve his job in the wake of the lifting of *alcohol prohibition*.
Amazing isn’t it? We replaced alcohol prohibition with Cannabis Prohibition.
WHY? To preserve Federal agents jobs and aid the booze industry’s re-emergence into legitimacy – by prohibiting it’s main rival – Cannabis.
Anslinger accomplished this specious feat by using liberal doses of racism and sensationalist propaganda that still pervade the debate over Cannabis and drug reform today.
Just take Rick Green’s subtle jabs:
I guess he felt the need to appeal to the LCD’s of the intellectuals who read his blog.
Yeah, you’re a true American Patriot too!
A-I-D’s:
Typical dismissive intellectually devoid talk show comeback.
America, above all else, is about seeing the bigger picture in the context of individual liberty.
I don’t need a Hannity, Limbaugh, Levin, Colter, etc . . . to think for me – let alone define my patriotism.
I reject preconceived notions – even when canonized into law – that are devoid of a factual basis.
And I bristle at neo-pats who go around trumpeting that the sky is falling because their brand of stagnant last- century knee-jerk revolu- whooops, I mean, reactionary politics isn’t ubiquitous in influencing the law of the land.
And, just to blow your mind a little further . . . I’m not a Liberal nor am I a Democrat.
John, SSDP isn’t about celebrating drug USE, it’s about reforming drug POLICY. Regardless of your propensity to indulge, you gotta admit that having huge criminal penalties for possessing a drug no more dangerous than tobacco is bad policy.
Thank you!
I’m not a fan of marijuana
HOWEVER, I am not a fan of stupid laws either!
Reform is key and if it can help relieve medical ailments in doing so at the same time, I am definitely all for change!
Recent headlines pertain to beer, marijuana … what is causing the people of Connecticut such unhappiness that they look to run away from reality?
the over regulation that out state government is putting on the average taxpayer…I am planning on finally moving my manufacturing business along with 51 jobs out of Ct and to a right to work state such as South Carolina…the Malloy ADMINISATRATION IS THE THE STRAW THAT BROKE MY BACK
Right. What do you do for a living? Sell bridges?
I’m suspect of his claim as well, and the thing is, if he sold ‘bridges’ he’d have virtually perpetual income with an initial 3-5 year projection to complete bridge (actually lasting 10-15 years) and the ability to endlessly revise and submit cost projections until the final total exceeded the initial estimate by 500% or more.
Yes … Malloy is trying to finish what Ribicoff started.
This isn’t exactly the place to discuss the issue of State regulation of business. But you brought it up and to be honest I’m always a bit suspect of these threats and moves.
If you need to move your business out of the State (that was presumably good enough a host for you to build your business up to 51 employees) then that’s what you have to do.
I will ask you this:
Have you previously laid people off?
Have you called the Governors office and explained your situation?
If not have you called your State Senator or Representative?
Are you competing with anyone domestically?
Is the problem that you can’t turn a profit?
Or is it that the profit would be larger in NC?
What exactly did the Malloy Administration do to break -your- back?
In general, why is it my fellow Connecticut natives are so obtuse when it comes to discussions such as Cannabis and Drug Policy Reform?
Many of the comments to this post and related stories – not just on the Courant.com, but on other publications websites – reflect not only a poor grasp of the actual issues at hand, and the dynamics of Cannabis use, but also a sad lack of intellectual curiosity.
Knee-jerk reactions to complex issues serve no use beyond reinforcing your own narrowly focused understanding of an issue.
Im glad we have our University to be proud of our drug culture..no wonder our country is going to ‘pot’!
UConn is well rooted in Agriculture. If you’ve never been cow tipping, you’re missing out.
“parents of incoming freshpeople” should be proud that their kids have been accepted into and decided to go to a school that promotes such free and open thinking. Through my personal experience I know that members of groups such as SSDP at UConn are the most critically thinking and politically active students on campus. whether they actually smoke pot or not is irrelevant.
Reality doesn’t matter to the haters. They get their buzz by being haters.
Never have truer words been submitted as a comment to a blog!
It is UConn so who gives a fook?
I wouldn’t have a problem wiht banning alcholol and weed in the US if it worked.
We can’t police the borders. We can’t police the distribution chain. It’s as bad as prostitution.
Some countries can police vice and take brutal measures to do so. This won’t happen in the US.
Given that the US should legalize hash bars and small quanitity cannabis sales through licensed shops and bars and restaurants. We need to lower the age of consent back to 18. There wa a day the black amrket was the odler brother or the HS Senior. We need to go back to that environment instead of encouraging pills and the rave culture which permeates most clubs underage today with pills and meth and acid a favorite for quick consumption for minors.
The US looks at one figure only: DWI deaths between 18-21 and needs to look at the bigger picture of consent at 18 and cannabis legalization. Some countries will be mandating breathalyzer interlocks as car equipment in 10 years. France is requiring breathalyzers as a first step to mandating it as auto equipment and then interlocks
THe whole policy needs a rethink. I hate decrminalization: it simply makes the dealers bolder when offering gateway drugs and the state doesn’t get tax revenues
Another great honor bestowed upon the People’s Republic of Connecticut! We should all rejoice as we tax, spend, borrow, smoke, brainwash, and abort ourselves into oblivion. Well done comrades.
beautiful