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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Jul. 3, 2007

Reefer Madness at The High Court

Forum Column - By Diane Klein - A law professor takes a light-hearted look at the inanity of the high court's handling of Morse v. Frederick.

FORUM COLUMN

By Diane Klein
     
      My 17-year-old son occasionally wears a T-shirt that says, in small green letters across the front, "Pot Smoking is Not a Crime." While that slogan might be mostly wishful thinking on his part, with a lawyer/law professor as a mother, he has been brought up believing that talking about pot smoking is certainly not a crime and, more importantly, that su...

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