Time magazine is a periodical of Time Inc., a company within AOL TIME Warner. TIME magazine itself was founded in 1923, from it’s age, they claim is their reason for journalistic excellence. TIME Inc. also claims that it’s the “world's leading magazine company”. Time Inc. publishes about 140 regular-frequency titles with 298 million readers, as well as numerous special issues. On this month’s issue of “TIME” magazine, a picture of a cigarette carton filled with marijuana joints is taking up more than half of the cover, adjacent to the words, “Is America going to pot? (the battle heats up over legalizing marijuana)”. Time magazine devoted 11 pages to the science, politics, and the effects of marijuana on the human body. These ar

ticles are in response to the Nevada state ballot proposal to legalize marijuana, which will be voted on, on November 5. The magazine articles do a good job treating the pot-legalization movement as a serious issue, but their authors exposed their personal views on the subject by stating, “a lot of parents would rather smell beer on their kid’s breath than have a 29 year-old living at home, eating Cheetos and watching Spongebob Squarepants.”

This and other statements like it do nothing to disperse the negative social stereotype of the lazy, stupid stoner, which was one of the main points of the cover story. But other than that, the authors did do a fairly good job at giving unbiased coverage within the story. The story explained how the left and right wing extremists can turn “facts” and statistics into whatever they want them to be. The other article was on the effects on the human body. Somewhat contradicting views/statements were made in this article. At one point, it declared that marijuana’s effects can beneficial to all, with increase an in lymphocytes (disease fighting cells), relief from headaches/migraines, along with release of pressure within the eye. But the article also then states that marijuana has been linked to poor circulation in the limbs, leading in many cases to amputation. I for one have never heard such a thing, which leads me to question if this is one of the “facts” or statements the article itself discusses. The anti-pot view, even though somewhat well concealed, is still evident with such statements such as the article’s table of contents title, “Beyond the Munchies”. The piece does, ho

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