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Comment on Profile of Mary Anne Khumalo (Anonymous)

This profile has tried and tested the boundaries of controversy. “Smooth Operator” has chosen to profile a fellow first-year who uses cannabis as a means of escapism and a way to deal with the problems of varsity and non-conformity, but…

The article seems at first to be impartial to judgement, by approaching the interviewee naively. This is done through narrative guru Todorov’s initial equilibrium, which is then disrupted when we find out that the interviewee smokes dope.

Smooth Operator says that the interviewee “wows you with her intelligence”! This is hardly justifiable for the interviewee to be using marijuana as a means to escape. The interviewee says: “I know it’s a drug, but I use it responsibly and conventionally…anyway, there are no side effects.” If she was so intelligent, she would know that there are plenty of side effects, and the fact that she uses it to deal with her problems is a side effect. I disagree with her when she states it is a drug, but I cannot accept the juvenile approach of her saying that there are no side effects.

Drugs only work for people in total control, who know exactly what they are experimenting with. So be careful Mary Anne!

Play with fire, you get burned. . .