While students have shown little interest in a proposal to ban smoking on campus, the war on drugs has gone completely unnoticed. On Wednesday, Ryan Grim, senior congressional correspondent for the Huffington Post, tried to change that. He asks, "If drugs can be lethal, should they be legal?"

"There are bills in the House every year, usually Barney Frank is one of the ones who introduce it, to lift the ban on medical marijuana and another one is to lift the ban on recreational marijuana," says Aditya Mukerjee, VP of Students for Sensible Drug Policy.

Mr. Grim argues that "the thing that people should take away from the history of America’s drug use is that drugs are dangerous things. Now there’s a funny thing about it, adults actually do have the capacity to learn."

With the intellectual capacity of American adults confirmed, concern shifts to the publication of misleading facts about drugs.

Mr. Mukerjee: "We’ve never actually had an overdose from THC. It’s as safe of a drug as you’re likely to get. Yet, because of our history, because of Hearst’s actions in the mid-30s, that’s why we have marijuana illegal, and that’s why we have alcohol legal though regulated. The ideological problem at stake here is we’re going based on history and not based on science."

Mr. Grim: "The reason I got into the book was to try and put our current relationship with drugs in a broader context. One of the biggest problems that we have in terms of drug policy in the U.S. is that we have zero memory. We don’t remember what happened twenty years ago in terms of drug policy."

Memory loss is a known effect of cannabis, but Mr. Grim is specifically referring to the inefficient policies that guide the War on Drugs.

Mr. Mukerjee: "If you say that the War on Drugs is in the quest to eliminate drugs, I don’t think that’s ever going to be won."

Mr. Grim: "In the 80s, price increases in marijuana drove men toward other drugs. The War on Drugs – hard soft or otherwise – helped persuade pot smokers to put down the bong and pick up [cocaine]."

Mr. Mukerjee: "The myth that people who use drugs are lazy or unproductive or other, it’s a complete myth. To anyone who’s unsure on where they stand on drug policy, that’s the one thing I would keep in mind. Keep yourself open to the facts and always ask, ‘where are these coming from?’ because, frankly, most of the stuff you learned in your D.A.R.E. classes is wrong."