Letter to a friend

Dear Jessica,

I was wondering how things have been going back in Melbourne. Things here have been going great. It's a completely different experience here than High School was. UCF has completely different social norms than we did back home. You wouldn't believe the view on Marijuana here. There is so much support for its use on campus. Did you know that they have a club here that actually supports its use. I was unaware that they could have clubs that support illegal drugs. The club is very open about its views on restrictions they view as wrong. I have seen several demonstrations outside of the student union in support of the drug. This includes a band as well as a public speaker talking about the positives associated with it. They also have other events on campus such as this thing called tent city. A bunch of students who support Marijuana on campus meet in this place called Memory Mall. It's a large open grass lawn. The students brought tents and then camped out for several days. I am not sure but I believe they even spent the night. I got a chance to ask one of them why they were camping out and they told me it was "just for fun". I later found out while listening to one of the bands they had playing there that they were there to support Marijuana use. I heard the lead singer say "this is just like Woodstock, except we have more weeeeeeeed". It is so different here than Melbourne. Can you think of anytime where Marijuana was so openly expressed to the public? I remember several times where are friends were arrested back home. Here it's almost as if each user has a huge sign over there head saying "I smoke". I've never seen so much backing for something like this back home. The only clubs we had in High school were sports clubs and maybe a few religiously backed clubs. I can't imagine what would happen if a student were to introduce such a club. Have you ever heard of anything like that before? I've even been approached a couple times with people looking for connections to get weed. Back home they usually just stuck to their core groups of smoker and hookups. Here it seems like they're always people looking around to score some Marijuana. I wonder if the police here are working to do anything about this or if it is protected by free speech. I wonder if maybe the kids could be tested for use even though they are only expressing free speech. After seeing what happened to our friend back home I wish they would crack down a little harder on the use of the drug. He ended up losing out on his chance to go to College. He didn't even go to a community college. He started doing pills and other drugs. I just wish he would get back on the right track but with Marijuana in his life I don't think he will ever be able to get on the right track.