<P> Admittedly, some high school students (including those who use drugs) are dumb . Most students, however, do not shed their brains at the schoolhouse gate, and most students know dumb advocacy when they see it . The notion that the message on this banner would actually persuade either the average student or even the dumbest one to change his or her behavior is most implausible . </P> <P> Stevens argued that it would be "profoundly unwise to create special rules for speech about drug and alcohol use", pointing to the historical examples of both opposition to the Vietnam War and resistance to Prohibition in the 1920s . Pointing to the current debate over medical marijuana, Stevens concluded, "Surely our national experience with alcohol should make us wary of dampening speech suggesting--however inarticulately--that it would be better to tax and regulate marijuana than to persevere in a futile effort to ban its use entirely ." </P> <P> Melinda Cupps Dickler, in her article "The Morse Quartet: Student Speech And The First Amendment" in the Loyola Law Review, provided a survey of commentary that followed in the immediate aftermath of the case: Some commentators have suggested that Morse both demonstrated a division among the Justices on student speech rights and continued Fraser's and Kuhlmeier's erosion of students' First Amendment rights . She regards this suggestion as "not surprising" given the outcome of the decision, the plain language of the holding, and the dissenting Justices' charge that the opinion did "serious violence to the First Amendment". She adds that other commentators have asserted that while Morse did not dramatically change the law regarding student speech, it failed to answer any of the questions left by the Tinker trilogy . She notes that these questions--what First Amendment protection is owed to student speech, and how courts should analyze its censorship--are currently significant as schools struggle with the issues of discriminatory student speech or hate speech, and student speech threatening violence . Further, "such questions are always paramount because schools are the training grounds for our nation's citizens and future leaders ." </P> <P> Kenneth Starr, former Dean at Pepperdine University School of Law, and who argued for Morse before the Supreme Court, introduced a symposium about the case noting that Chief Justice Roberts "sought to keep the decision quite narrow", limiting the case "to the issue of public school administrators' ability to keep the educational process free from messages about illegal drugs" and drawing from the Court's existing student speech jurisprudence that "permitted school administrators broad discretion to keep out of the educational environment antisocial messages celebrating drug use". </P>

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