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Harvard Student Tells His Peers They Need to Smoke a Joint

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Describing his peers as “made up of kids who sat in the first row of the class in grade school and probably ratted out those passing notes in the back,” Harvard University student Joshua Lipson encourages his peers to relax and smoke a fat bong load.

Suggesting students get into Harvard “by showing respect—nay, devotion—to social rules,” and that “rebellion just isn’t in our blood,” Lipson writes in The Harvard Crimson that those on campus should try a little of that wacky tobacci, pointing out stats that show students are far more likely to drink alcohol than get high.

“There’s nothing inherently subversive about marijuana, yet substituting it for alcohol would be a near-harmless way to get Harvard students into the habit of occasional rule-breaking and convention-flouting,” he wrote in his op-ed, subtitled “The Case for Cannabis.”

He tells them not to worry about the law, saying: “In a world packed with arbitrary injustices and limitations, you bet we need it.”

Yeah, that follows – considering this is the same place President Barack Obama, a self-admitted youth toker, went to law school.

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