dealing drugs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Search your house and if you find something, call the cops and let them handle it. I assume you've already tried to get him off drugs and re-directed to other non-drug activities and friends?

This advice clearly comes from someone who has never dealt with this. Absolutely terrible idea. Getting arrested could limit his future substantially. Try to deal with it without handicapping the entire rest of his life.

Dealing drugs could limit his future permanently if he is murdered by whoever is supplying him. Search everywhere, confront him, send him to drug counselling. Intervene in whatever way you have to NOW to stop his smoking and dealing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DO NOT CONTACT POLICE. THEY MAY NOT TREAT DRUG DEALING AS A PETTY OFFENSE.

I have not dealt with this issue. However, you do have options. What I would probably do is to give him a choice: go clean on your own, or go into rehab. Follow that up with urine tests. If he is recreational user, he should be able to quit, otherwise, get him the help. I think at 16, you can force him into rehab.

Find a good counselor also.

Pot may seem like a minor deal, but if he gets busted for dealing, it will become very difficult to get certain types of jobs -- those that require a clearence.

FYI, dealing drugs is a felony, not a minor offense. He is selling drugs to his classmates (and, possibly, even younger children) and if the school finds out (and it will), then the police will be called, he will be expelled from school and be charged, tried, convicted, and probably get probation. At this point, however, his life is already ruined. Depending on the amount of drugs he has, he could be charged as an adult so I would rather scare the living daylights out of him to get him back on the straight and narrow.

[Anonymous]

A very nice young physics student at the University of Maryland was shot because he was dealing a little drugs. This is very very dangerous.

[Anonymous]

here is the link. show this to your son.

http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/maryland/university-of-maryland-student-shot-killed-identified-011211

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is it with the parents on this board that every kid is doing drugs, selling drugs, etc.? I went to a private school in NYC and then to a boarding school and then to college. I've never even SEEN a joint much less smoked one. Every kid doesn't do it, every school doesn't have it rampant, and every kid isn't lying about it. I'm 37 and I think it's pathetic when I read that parents believe their kids when they say that they don't see it at their boarding school and posters come back with "listen hon" and "you're naive" thank God my parents didn't treat me that way, and I hope to Hell I have more common sense than to treat my kids that way. Not every kid lies, either.

lol. And how old is your baby? 6 months? A year yet?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh no there are so many ridiculous responses going on here. NO in case it wasn't obvious don't call the police. DD is very successful in the financial industry and still is a recreational pot smoker. To be honest, I feel it's helpful and relaxes him after an extremely long work week. We would never be the family that has a glass of wine at the end of the day so this is his best option. So for me the issue is really the DEALING, as I am sure you realize this could cause severe problems depending on the quantity, etc. You need to approach with caution and be supportive and rational.

Why is it all right for your DH to break the law and not all right for some kid in the slums? Money. I hope your druggie DH is caught and the authorities make an example of him. Maybe the reason your DH is so successful is that he is also dealing drugs. You won't have a legal glass of wine but you will smoke illegal pot. You are an unbelievable.