Wilson students marijuana use is reaching epidemic proportions

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Anonymous wrote:The pot problem at Wilson is no worse than it was before legalization. And as a parent, i’d much rather have kids smoking pot than drinking or doing other hard drugs. Frankly, I’d rather have them occasionally smoke pot than get hooked on vaping and addicted to nicotine.

How is smoking pot better than vaping?! You’re still putting chemicals is your lungs. And please don’t reply that pot is natural because it isn’t regulated so you have zero idea of what is in it.

It’s the addictiveness of nicotine. Vapers will be hooked for life or have an awful time quitting. Teen pot smokers, like generations before them, will use for five or six years, then quit or use infrequently.

Complication: pot is many times more powerful today than it was for kids in the '70s and '80s. Also: weed even back then was strongly habit forming. Nope, not physically addictive like N, but *very* hard to quit nonetheless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I grew up near Berkeley. Everyone I knew who was a frequent user was self medicating for depression, and they all lost years of their lives to pot. It was like pressing a pause button, because all of their motivation was gone. I went away to college, worked a bit, then went back for grad school. I went into a pizza parlor, and there were the potheads from my high school, working the same job they had in 10th grade.(These were people from college educated homes).

this is right on the money: was the same growing up in Chevy Chase, MD, around 1980. Some stoners I knew found considerable career success, but even then, all the years of sneaking around and lying and wasting time took their tool. Others, even from rich, educated families, were permanently damaged. A few ended up dead or in jail.

[Anonymous]

Any call for decriminalization to be repealed is a fringe position far removed from the mainstream. That is clear from the current primary.

[Anonymous]

Meh. Truth is, yes there's higher thc herb out there if you want it, but the reality of the marketplace is there's a really long menu of buds with different concentrations and mental effects, available to be selected by the consumer. Most of this thread has no idea what it's talking about with respect the industry, started by a troll with stereotyped ideas about upper nw caucasia anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Meh. Truth is, yes there's higher thc herb out there if you want it, but the reality of the marketplace is there's a really long menu of buds with different concentrations and mental effects, available to be selected by the consumer. Most of this thread has no idea what it's talking about with respect the industry, started by a troll with stereotyped ideas about upper nw caucasia anyway.

You sound sooo stoned....

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Anonymous wrote:Was talking to teacher today who said that weed is a real problem in the school. It’s obvious many kids “wake and bake”. It’s for sale everywhere around the school. I’ve also seen kids in tenley who are obviously high. I’m concerned for my kids and what this is doing to this generation of kids. What were we thinking by legalizing marijuana?

Are you an actual Wilson parent and did you talk to an actual Wilson teacher or are you a troll?

Marijuana was widely available when I was in High School 30 years ago and lots of people used it so I'm skeptical there is a big change - I have a 9th grader at Wilson and in discussing this with other parents most of us agree that in our UMC demographic there is way less pot smoking (and drinking) going on than when we were in high school. Or maybe our kids are somehow hiding it better but I'm skeptical.

In any case please let us know where it is for sale all around the school -the way this post is written I suspect it was written by a private school parent from MD freaked out by what they see out the window of their Lexus when they drive through to and from dropping their kid at GDS or SFS or StA - I walk with my ES student through Tenley twice a day and don't ever recall smelling marijuana - my biggest concern is all the littering from people eating at Chic-fil-a.

+1

To be fair, lots of Wilson kids smoke a lot of pot, but according to my senior, there is MUCH LESS drug use and sales at school during school hours than there was when he was a freshman, and much less open dealing of fake Xanax and other super dangerous fentanyl-based or fentanyl tainted drugs.

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't worry too much. Some of our country's most prominent billionaires were high for their entire high school years.

Along with many more sad sacks who don't have billions of dollars. The potency of today's pot along with forming brains is a pretty bad combo for a daily habit at this age.

Yes- pot has been engineered to have higher levels of THC. Kids carry stick deodorant in their backpacks and put it directly on their clothes/jackets to mask the skunk smell after getting high.

My spouse works in dc’s legal cannabis industry. This is half of our income so I have a different perspective. I am very much so engulfed in the legal and gray market scene. Soon our own children will be at the age where there will be peer pressure and misinformation. This is why we are getting our children familiar with the truth of cannabis before they have a chance to be sold dangerous trash cartridges or god forbid, synthetics. But we also know that at the end of the day our children live in a city and will be teenagers just like the both of us were. Education is power.

I, myself, work in education. Specifically- public middle school. I know that anything you tell an adolescent not to do, they will. This has been the case for teenagers since the beginning of time. Be careful of your sensorship and your language because you may be pushing your kids right into the row of senior cars that are hotboxing their mornings away.

Can you say more about this? I like the idea of cartridges but after all the stuff about Vit E oil I'm sticking with flower.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The pot problem at Wilson is no worse than it was before legalization. And as a parent, i’d much rather have kids smoking pot than drinking or doing other hard drugs. Frankly, I’d rather have them occasionally smoke pot than get hooked on vaping and addicted to nicotine.

How is smoking pot better than vaping?! You’re still putting chemicals is your lungs. And please don’t reply that pot is natural because it isn’t regulated so you have zero idea of what is in it.

It’s the addictiveness of nicotine. Vapers will be hooked for life or have an awful time quitting. Teen pot smokers, like generations before them, will use for five or six years, then quit or use infrequently.

Complication: pot is many times more powerful today than it was for kids in the '70s and '80s. Also: weed even back then was strongly habit forming. Nope, not physically addictive like N, but *very* hard to quit nonetheless.

Um...

Pot today is about equally potent as pot in the 80s, 70s, and 60s.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/03/was-marijuana-really-less-potent-in-the-1960s/387010/

How incomplete government data encourages a pervasive pot myth

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any call for decriminalization to be repealed is a fringe position far removed from the mainstream. That is clear from the current primary.

The current primary also shows us that any Democrat with means sends their kids to private schools. Meanwhile, they experiment on our kids with their dystopian social policies in a shameless attempt to out woke each other. The lack of enforcement in DCPS is a main reason why almost all middle class AA parents will never send their kids to public. No way they are going to let DCPS undue a lifetime of hard work and sacrifice with their ridiculous look the other way policies on drugs, fighting, and attendance.

[Anonymous]

Teenagers have been smoking pot forever -- when it wasn't legal for adults and now that it is. No one on this thread has offered anything beyond anecdotal evidence ("I think," "it seems," etc.) that pot smoking at Wilson has gotten worse, or that it's any worse there than any other school.

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Anonymous wrote:The drug problems at the nearby private schools are much worse than at Wilson.

Why do you care about what is done at schools that are not using your tax money? I’m not a private school parent. They can open a head shop at the private schools and I wouldn’t care.

Because singling out Wilson and its students is unfair. And more important, if the problem is “All DC teens smoke a lot of pot”, that calls for one set of solutions. If the problem is “Wilson students uniquely smoke a lot of pot”, the solutions are different.

If there is a problem, let’s diagnose it correctly so we can fix it.

It’s not just teens, either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Meh. Truth is, yes there's higher thc herb out there if you want it, but the reality of the marketplace is there's a really long menu of buds with different concentrations and mental effects, available to be selected by the consumer. Most of this thread has no idea what it's talking about with respect the industry, started by a troll with stereotyped ideas about upper nw caucasia anyway.

I live in Upper Caucasia and see it every day. I haven’t posted in this thread previously. It’s a major problem for teens.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Meh. Truth is, yes there's higher thc herb out there if you want it, but the reality of the marketplace is there's a really long menu of buds with different concentrations and mental effects, available to be selected by the consumer. Most of this thread has no idea what it's talking about with respect the industry, started by a troll with stereotyped ideas about upper nw caucasia anyway.

I live in Upper Caucasia and see it every day. I haven’t posted in this thread previously. It’s a major problem for teens.

Weird.

I walk through Tenleytown twice a day with my kids (well now just 1) and have never seen it or smelled it and we walk past throngs of kids every day. Strangely I also have never seen cigarette smoking and only rarely have seen vaping - when I was in high school a significant number of kids (including many from my middle class demographic) smoked cigarettes.

Now I've heard of a spot in one alley near Wilson and another alley near GDS where kids from each respective school apparently routinely do go to smoke pot but I've not ever seen kids casually walking down the street smoking anything.

It also happened I had a kid with soccer practice all fall at Deal and we walked through Ft Reno twice a week around 4:30 PM when there were also lots of Wilson kids milling around and never once have I smelled pot.

I've got no doubt there are Wilson kids who smoke pot but my regular (and they really are regular) walks through the neighborhood when there are lots and lots of Wilson kids milling around has not offered any anecdotal examples that this is the case.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Any call for decriminalization to be repealed is a fringe position far removed from the mainstream. That is clear from the current primary.

The current primary also shows us that any Democrat with means sends their kids to private schools. Meanwhile, they experiment on our kids with their dystopian social policies in a shameless attempt to out woke each other. The lack of enforcement in DCPS is a main reason why almost all middle class AA parents will never send their kids to public. No way they are going to let DCPS undue a lifetime of hard work and sacrifice with their ridiculous look the other way policies on drugs, fighting, and attendance.

Trust me- while fighting and attendance are less of an issue at privates, drug use is just as prevalent, if not more so. White middle class kids have ALWAYS engaged with drugs and drinking at earlier ages than other demographics.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Any call for decriminalization to be repealed is a fringe position far removed from the mainstream. That is clear from the current primary.

The current primary also shows us that any Democrat with means sends their kids to private schools. Meanwhile, they experiment on our kids with their dystopian social policies in a shameless attempt to out woke each other. The lack of enforcement in DCPS is a main reason why almost all middle class AA parents will never send their kids to public. No way they are going to let DCPS undue a lifetime of hard work and sacrifice with their ridiculous look the other way policies on drugs, fighting, and attendance.

Trust me- while fighting and attendance are less of an issue at privates, drug use is just as prevalent, if not more so. White middle class kids have ALWAYS engaged with drugs and drinking at earlier ages than other demographics.

I don’t trust you. I sure as heck don’t trust DCPS. And neither does any Democrat running for president.