Is the drug problem as bad as it sounds?

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Anonymous wrote:Just hearing that there was potential an overdose at BCC? Not sure, but concerning images are being passed around on social media.

it was 2 intoxicated students... So drunk but not an overdose.

Is it bad that I'm relieved to hear they were just drunk and not high or ODing?

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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.

Are you kidding me?

Parents are responsible for their kids and what happens in the home and outside of the school.

MCPS is responsible for what happens INSIDE the school. They literally have a DUTY OF CARE for these minors.

The woman who lost her child to an overdose, literally complained that no one, not law enforcement, not MCPS school officials or the healthcare system helped her when her daughter got hooked on drugs. She complained that the school knew her daughter was using drugs at the school in the bathroom and DID NOTHING ABOUT IT. Parents are not IN the school buildings with the kids. MCPS is literally responsible for student behavior inside the school buildings.

What the hell are you talking about?

I've been shocked (am not shocked by much) at how ppl in MCPS today do not get the very. basic. ethical (and legal) concept of duty of care, and all its ramifications.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just hearing that there was potential an overdose at BCC? Not sure, but concerning images are being passed around on social media.

it was 2 intoxicated students... So drunk but not an overdose.

Got it. Well, MCPS has its hands full!

every school does, private and public. Don't be fooled.

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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.

I guess to some extent but it's far more common at the wealthy schools.

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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.

I guess to some extent but it's far more common at the wealthy schools.

No, kids are smoking pot at all of the county schools. They were doing it 30 years ago when I was in school here (non-W school).

[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.

I guess to some extent but it's far more common at the wealthy schools.

No, kids are smoking pot at all of the county schools. They were doing it 30 years ago when I was in school here (non-W school).

Yes I can assure you it's happening a lot at our high school with a FARMS rate of 40%

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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.

Teens always were able to get drugs. It’s not easier. We just now have drugs tgat kill white kids so we all of a sudden care.

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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.

Teens always were able to get drugs. It’s not easier. We just now have drugs tgat kill white kids so we all of a sudden care.

It is much easier. Don’t make it about something it’s not. It is not about race.

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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.

And, yet, where are they getting the money to buy it? Why are the parents ok with it and not monitoring it?

Kids are offered THC carts by their friends.

[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.

Teens always were able to get drugs. It’s not easier. We just now have drugs tgat kill white kids so we all of a sudden care.

It is much easier. Don’t make it about something it’s not. It is not about race.

It is actually about race and SES. Kids have been dying from drugs for a multitude of decades, but they were either poor in Hagerstown or black, so nobody really cared.

Now W kids are dying by the dozen every year. They buy pills of the net and die in their basements.

MCPS is just informing your because they are not buying the drugs at school and they are not dying at school (in general).

Sure there are still some kids getting pot, but that is not what people are freaking out about.

This is nto the long slow heroine death where it takes years of rehab to finally overdose. This is 1 stupid kid trying 1 pill and dying.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Teens always were able to get drugs. It’s not easier. We just now have drugs tgat kill white kids so we all of a sudden care.

It is much easier. Don’t make it about something it’s not. It is not about race.

It is actually about race and SES. Kids have been dying from drugs for a multitude of decades, but they were either poor in Hagerstown or black, so nobody really cared.

Now W kids are dying by the dozen every year. They buy pills of the net and die in their basements.

MCPS is just informing your because they are not buying the drugs at school and they are not dying at school (in general).

Sure there are still some kids getting pot, but that is not what people are freaking out about.

This is nto the long slow heroine death where it takes years of rehab to finally overdose. This is 1 stupid kid trying 1 pill and dying.

It is not about race. It’s about huge increases in overdose deaths. But see it as you wish.

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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.

What????

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Teens always were able to get drugs. It’s not easier. We just now have drugs tgat kill white kids so we all of a sudden care.

It is much easier. Don’t make it about something it’s not. It is not about race.

It is actually about race and SES. Kids have been dying from drugs for a multitude of decades, but they were either poor in Hagerstown or black, so nobody really cared.

Now W kids are dying by the dozen every year. They buy pills of the net and die in their basements.

MCPS is just informing your because they are not buying the drugs at school and they are not dying at school (in general).

Sure there are still some kids getting pot, but that is not what people are freaking out about.

This is nto the long slow heroine death where it takes years of rehab to finally overdose. This is 1 stupid kid trying 1 pill and dying.

The girl who just died, which prompted the MCPS press conference went to Kennedy, which is not a W school, and her mother is a Hispanic immigrant who doesn't even speak English.

Get your head out of your ass and stop pretending this is an issue that only affects white kids.

[Anonymous]

Its everywhere sadly: https://bcctattler.org/1952/news/students-rushed-to-hospital-after-being-discovered-unconscious-in-a-b-cc-bathroom/

[Anonymous]

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

It's not legal until July 1, 2023, dude. What you have there is a straw man.