Author Archives: Marlize van Romburgh and Giana Magnoli

History-making moments sometimes seem to come all at once. Last week, Cal Poly took to protest, refusing to accept hurtful images that remind us of our nation’s intolerant past. Tomorrow, we’ll take to the polls to decide our nation’s future. Hundreds of students and faculty took time out of their busy lives to protest in the University Union last Thursday.

In a time when the “war on drugs” can be considered a huge waste of time and resources and smoking pot is considered mainstream, how does the owner of a community-welcomed medicinal marijuana dispensary get arrested and convicted of multiple felonies? As the Mustang Daily reports on the front page today, Central Coast resident Charles Lynch was found guilty last week on all federal counts for selling medical marijuana from his dispensary in Morro Bay.