Is the drug problem as bad as it sounds?

[Anonymous]

Yes, the drug problem is as bad as you heard. The school system is doing nothing about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, the drug problem is as bad as you heard. The school system is doing nothing about it.

Because they don't have the resources to monitor it. If they kept SROs it would be different. The principal at our HS predicted it would happen when all the liberals voted to legalize weed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, the drug problem is as bad as you heard. The school system is doing nothing about it.

Because they don't have the resources to monitor it. If they kept SROs it would be different. The principal at our HS predicted it would happen when all the liberals voted to legalize weed.

Is it really that much worse since legalization? I was in HS 30 years ago and weed was still everywhere.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, it is because of fentanyl. Teen overdose deaths have more than doubled since 2019. According to this article, it's not so much the amount of drug use going up, but instead the lethality of drugs available now, particularly fentanyl. U.S. had over 100,000 drug overdose deaths last year. It was about half that in 2015.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/teen-overdose-deaths-spiked-low-drug-use-rcna23103

There has never been an “opioid crisis.” That is a convenient figment of the imaginations of governmental entities that want to do pirate raids on the treasuries of pharmaceutical companies.

The fentanyl problem is real and outrageous. The authorities know where it is coming from, who the powerful individuals running the show are and how it is being introduced and distributed. Then they do nothing.

Fentanyl is now coming en masse from drug cartels in Mexico. It is hugely profitable, easy to make and has no growing season, so they can run their factories 24/7. Get China to stop sending the precursor chemicals to Mexico. Get the Mexican government to do more.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, the drug problem is as bad as you heard. The school system is doing nothing about it.

Because they don't have the resources to monitor it. If they kept SROs it would be different. The principal at our HS predicted it would happen when all the liberals voted to legalize weed.

Is it really that much worse since legalization? I was in HS 30 years ago and weed was still everywhere.

Difference is it was illegal back then and kids were more discreet about it. Now, kids think they can bring it to school, smoke in the bathrooms, and nothing will happen to them..and they're right.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, the drug problem is as bad as you heard. The school system is doing nothing about it.

Because they don't have the resources to monitor it. If they kept SROs it would be different. The principal at our HS predicted it would happen when all the liberals voted to legalize weed.

Is it really that much worse since legalization? I was in HS 30 years ago and weed was still everywhere.

Difference is it was illegal back then and kids were more discreet about it. Now, kids think they can bring it to school, smoke in the bathrooms, and nothing will happen to them..and they're right.

Yeah, I remember kids smoking it at parties and if you were the kind of geeky kid who never went to parties, you never saw it. Or my siblings that grew up in a more backwater town kids would cut class and smoke it in the woods near the school. Now I smell it everywhere just walking around, and my kids say the HS bathrooms all smell like weed. That’s not great. I voted against legalization, not because it really think it should be criminal, but because I wanted there to be enough of a no vote that the regulators realize it’s not like selling junk food.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, the drug problem is as bad as you heard. The school system is doing nothing about it.

Because they don't have the resources to monitor it. If they kept SROs it would be different. The principal at our HS predicted it would happen when all the liberals voted to legalize weed.

Is it really that much worse since legalization? I was in HS 30 years ago and weed was still everywhere.

Difference is it was illegal back then and kids were more discreet about it. Now, kids think they can bring it to school, smoke in the bathrooms, and nothing will happen to them..and they're right.

Yeah, I remember kids smoking it at parties and if you were the kind of geeky kid who never went to parties, you never saw it. Or my siblings that grew up in a more backwater town kids would cut class and smoke it in the woods near the school. Now I smell it everywhere just walking around, and my kids say the HS bathrooms all smell like weed. That’s not great. I voted against legalization, not because it really think it should be criminal, but because I wanted there to be enough of a no vote that the regulators realize it’s not like selling junk food.

The bad thing is, now that school administrators have accepted weed as the norm and no one is monitoring it, it's become easy to bring the harmful drugs to school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Of course I know there are always drugs. But sounds like rampant pot smoking in high schools plus several overdosing stories occurring at school. What’s going on? Same problem as we have had for decades or is it worse?

Isn't this mostly just at the rich schools where kids have money for that sort of thing?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Of course I know there are always drugs. But sounds like rampant pot smoking in high schools plus several overdosing stories occurring at school. What’s going on? Same problem as we have had for decades or is it worse?

Isn't this mostly just at the rich schools where kids have money for that sort of thing?

Nope. It's happening everywhere. Weed isn't expensive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, the drug problem is as bad as you heard. The school system is doing nothing about it.

Families are doing nothing about it, wanting their kids to be parented by the school system. Wake up, your kid more than likely is exposed to drugs/drinking at any private social gathering. Don't assume because they are at a friend's house or hanging out in your basement that they are making good choices. All it takes is a one-time experimentation and they can OD. I went to a funeral last summer of a HS kid, it broke the family and they thought 'it can never happen' to their DC. Educate and talk to your kids honestly about drugs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, the drug problem is as bad as you heard. The school system is doing nothing about it.

Families are doing nothing about it, wanting their kids to be parented by the school system. Wake up, your kid more than likely is exposed to drugs/drinking at any private social gathering. Don't assume because they are at a friend's house or hanging out in your basement that they are making good choices. All it takes is a one-time experimentation and they can OD. I went to a funeral last summer of a HS kid, it broke the family and they thought 'it can never happen' to their DC. Educate and talk to your kids honestly about drugs.

This. I talk to my kids regularly about it and they think it's disgusting. They say it sucks that they have to go to school smelling this crap. We don't expect the schools to parent the kids but they can certainly set standards for what is acceptable behavior in their buildings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Y’all voted to make pot legal. What did you expect?

Nobody voted for it to be legal for teens

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Y’all voted to make pot legal. What did you expect?

Nobody voted for it to be legal for teens

You all just made it easier for them to buy it all the while expecting the already overwhelmed and understaffed schools to monitor and regulate it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, the drug problem is as bad as you heard. The school system is doing nothing about it.

Families are doing nothing about it, wanting their kids to be parented by the school system. Wake up, your kid more than likely is exposed to drugs/drinking at any private social gathering. Don't assume because they are at a friend's house or hanging out in your basement that they are making good choices. All it takes is a one-time experimentation and they can OD. I went to a funeral last summer of a HS kid, it broke the family and they thought 'it can never happen' to their DC. Educate and talk to your kids honestly about drugs.

Yup. My neighbor’s son just overdosed, not sure if he will make it. He was always stoned, his single mom looked the other way. It’s sad but he obviously had a problem for years annd hung out with other kids who had problems (and brought them into our neighborhood) and she did nothing about it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, the drug problem is as bad as you heard. The school system is doing nothing about it.

Families are doing nothing about it, wanting their kids to be parented by the school system. Wake up, your kid more than likely is exposed to drugs/drinking at any private social gathering. Don't assume because they are at a friend's house or hanging out in your basement that they are making good choices. All it takes is a one-time experimentation and they can OD. I went to a funeral last summer of a HS kid, it broke the family and they thought 'it can never happen' to their DC. Educate and talk to your kids honestly about drugs.

Looks like the MCPS PR Dept found this thread. Never is MCPS culpable for anything. Alway parents or society or something.