In the first days of 2011, while many young Americans were busy consuming alcohol and tweeting rap music on their Playstations, one group was taking action. On January 5th, with a stroke of a hammer, Lisa Stevens '09 put the finishing touch on a small hospital shelter.
"Let's get high!" quipped President Obama on Monday, his mouth curling into a vainglorious grin. With those iconic words, the president signed into law the Green Act, which calls for the long awaited decriminalization of marijuana but also banishes the possession and use of various common daily commodities, including lighters, brownies and fire.
Larry Roberts, long-time Providence resident and accomplished "drug knower,"
considers himself a man who is fairly up-to-date on the trends and nuances of the drug lifestyle. He devoted the entire decade of the 1970s to figuring out what drug words mean in order to properly converse with those around him.
State and local police are still searching for the killer of 24-year-old Providence resident Gary Studnik, but despite a bevy of clues, a lack of viable suspects is making the case nearly impossible to solve. Studnik was somehow pushed out of his fifth-story window, despite the fact that the door to his apartment had not been opened in the two weeks prior to Studnik's demise.
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