Some intrepid reporter with a 527 media outlet ought to ask OH-02 Democratic candidate Vic Wulsin what her views on marijuana usage is and if she ever used the drug. What makes me ask this question? An emailer sent in a link to this Harvard Crimson story (do a Control-F search for "Wulsin" to take you to the quote) in which Wulsin, if this is the same woman and I believe that it is, states that she didn't remember getting a lecture on drugs "because [she] wasn't listening":The 1960s, though, were not necessarily an exceptional time. Wade Davis ’75 claims that the 70s were just as raucous. “Marijuana was simply the backdrop of the era,” he says. Davis doesn’t remember any drug busts or police conspiracies to break up campus happenings, and he believes that enforcement was “pretty laissez-faire.”Emphasis added.
“The University basically turned a blind eye to it,” says Davis.
Beginning in 1967, freshman proctors were instructed to remind their charges about the punitive consequences of drug and alcohol use, but Victoria W. Wulsin ’75 does not remember being warned. “But maybe that’s just because I wasn’t listening,” she says.
Although obviously popular among students, the University’s laissez-faire attitude towards drugs eventually got the school into hot water. In 1986, then- Secretary of Education William J. Bennett called Harvard’s lack of anti-drug action “unconscionable.”’
We already know that Wulsin had no problems with infecting AIDS patients with malaria, so the ethical issues involved in drug use really is a question that ought to be asked of the good doctor...
I don't know if there is a fire here or not, but there certainly is some smoke...
