PTK sponsoring marijuana debates

    Proponents and opponents of the issues surrounding the legalization of marijuana will conduct a debate via satellite later this month.
   Sponsored by the National Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, Steven Hager and Robert Stutman will be the main debaters with Dr. Billy Martin offering a nonbiased scientific perspective on the use of marijuana.
   The debate, Heads vs. Feds: The Great Debate, will be conducted via satellite Tuesday, Nov. 18, at 6:30 p.m. on all four campuses.
   The debate covers whether marijuana should be legalized for medical and/or recreational use.
   The panelists will discuss the physical and social effects of marijuana and laws surrounding its use and possession.
  Hager is the editor-in-chief of High Times magazine and works to establish the counterculture as a legitimate minority group.
  Stutman made a 25-year career as one of the country’s highest profile DEA agents and is responsible for more than 15,000 arrests.
  Martin is professor and chairman of the department of pharmacology and toxicology at Virginia Commonwealth University.
  The NE Campus will air the program in the Student Center’s Center Corner, and repeat it Wednesday, Nov. 19, at 12:30 p.m. in the Center Corner.
  South Campus will show the program in the SSTU Student Forum Room while the NW Campus will air the program in the Optimum Room in B2.
  The SE Campus will meet in the North Ballroom. Following the satellite discussions, the Beta Delta Omicron Chapter will sponsor a student panel conducting a symposium-style question-and-answer session.
  Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society of the Two-Year College, and the National Collegiate Honors Council will produce the program. This seminar is the final installment of a five-part series Dimensions and Directions of Health: Choices in the Maze.