High School Yearbook Promotes Smoking Marijuana, K2
As a past yearbook editor for my high school I know firsthand how published articles have generated controversy and in some extreme cases, led to court litigation.
In the 2010 Shawnee Mission West High School yearbook in Kansas, a two-page spread depicts students’ opinions and experiences with marijuana and K2 (a synthetic marijuana substitute that was not illegal when the article was written but is now illegal in the state of Kansas.)
K2 “…hits you a lot cleaner and faster,” said a student dubbed “John Marley” in the article.
Since the article does not describe any negative effects of using the illegal products, school officials have received complaints about the article, especially considering that the one of the photographs is a blurred picture of a teen smoking. Read the rest of this entry »