Wilson students marijuana use is reaching epidemic proportions

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It was like this at Stuyvesant HS in New York in the 90s. At least a dozen dealers with weed on them in the school every day.

The issue is not legalization, it's that teenagers want to get high.

No. The issue is legalization.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It was like this at Stuyvesant HS in New York in the 90s. At least a dozen dealers with weed on them in the school every day.

The issue is not legalization, it's that teenagers want to get high.

No. The issue is legalization.

Marijuana has de facto been legal in DC for 30 years - during the crack epidemic MPD decided it had more important things to do than worry about Marijuana and stopped pursuing marijuana possession cases.

Having said that it is only legal in DC to consume Marijuana on private property so if Wilson and GDS kids are getting high in public around their schools that is still illegal.

And the law only allows individuals to posses small amounts of Marijuana so in theory a dealer with a large stash can still be arrested.

[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.

Dude, you’re just not very observant. Tenley often reeks of pot. Same with Georgetown waterfront and K street. City smells like pot many places. And you don’t even see people smoking cigarettes? You aren’t looking for it.

[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.

Dude, you’re just not very observant. Tenley often reeks of pot. Same with Georgetown waterfront and K street. City smells like pot many places. And you don’t even see people smoking cigarettes? You aren’t looking for it.

+1. I live in DC and it is everywhere. In the warmer months, you can also smell it from passing cars with the windows rolled down.

[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.

Dude, you’re just not very observant. Tenley often reeks of pot. Same with Georgetown waterfront and K street. City smells like pot many places. And you don’t even see people smoking cigarettes? You aren’t looking for it.

Nope you are wrong and based on you somehow knowing what is going on in 3 disparate places I doubt you are spending a lot of time in all 3 and particularly in Tenleytown and suspect you live in some suburb and most of your exposure to Tenleytown is out the window of your SUV.

And I know I pay attention to people smoking because I routinely confront smokers who litter and I'm not seeing students smoking in Tenleytown.

And I definitely know what Pot smells like as I used to partake quite a bit.

FWIW because of some volunteering in the neighborhood I do I would have definitely heard other complaints about "Tenley reeking of pot."

So where do you live - AU Park happens to be my neighborhood and I'm in Tenley twice a day almost without exception.

[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.

Dude, you’re just not very observant. Tenley often reeks of pot. Same with Georgetown waterfront and K street. City smells like pot many places. And you don’t even see people smoking cigarettes? You aren’t looking for it.

+1. I live in DC and it is everywhere. In the warmer months, you can also smell it from passing cars with the windows rolled down.

I’ll be sure to give a wave or chuck a duce as I ride by. You all really have to lighten up.

[Anonymous]

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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.

There are good cartridges on the medical market- takoma wellness has a great selection. Outside of medical, there are too many cheap makeshift products out there, potentially with dangerous oils like vitamin e, that it’s not worth risking it. You are smart to stick to flower if you don’t have a card.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was like this at Stuyvesant HS in New York in the 90s. At least a dozen dealers with weed on them in the school every day.

The issue is not legalization, it's that teenagers want to get high.

No. The issue is legalization.

Wow. Strong argument.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was like this at Stuyvesant HS in New York in the 90s. At least a dozen dealers with weed on them in the school every day.

The issue is not legalization, it's that teenagers want to get high.

No. The issue is legalization.

Wow. Strong argument.

I'm not the PP, but not sure what you're looking for. Rising use and smell everywhere correlates with legalization. Not that hard to connect the dots....

[Anonymous]

Fort Reno reeks of pot.

[Anonymous]

It's disgusting and low class

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was like this at Stuyvesant HS in New York in the 90s. At least a dozen dealers with weed on them in the school every day.

The issue is not legalization, it's that teenagers want to get high.

No. The issue is legalization.

Wow. Strong argument.

I'm not the PP, but not sure what you're looking for. Rising use and smell everywhere correlates with legalization. Not that hard to connect the dots....

Fewer nonviolent people in jail also correlates. It's illegal to smoke in public, but the police are not enforcing the law. So take it up with the LEOs, not the lawmakers.

[Anonymous]

Smoking before/at school is an issue as it will certainly hinder the kid's day. No one should be a heavy weed smoker before 25 when the frontal lobe completes forming. If you are ballsy enough to smoke before school, then you're probably a heavy weed smoker. Seems like a parental issue to me rather than legal however. Weed has always been easy to get for high school kids, its not like its changed since the DC law has changed. The law has barely changed anyway, its just decriminalized, still can't sell it legally. If you can't smell it on your kid and talk to them about it, then that's on you and not the state. It's definitely something you should discuss with your kids before they come face to face with it in school/at friends house.

[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.

Oh, honey. You need to work harder at trolling. I'm a member of the 1% (both in terms of personal net wealth and income, not even counting family money) and a Democrat, and I send my kids to Wilson. About half of my kids' friends at Wilson are wealthier than we are as far as I can tell, and they are almost all Democrats.

And, as I posted previously, the Wilson administration has cracked down HARD starting about two years ago on fighting, drugs and attendance. But of course, you don't know that because you've never set foot in the school and you know nothing about it. You, like a lot of private school and MD and VA parents come onto DCUM to post weird nonsense that you completely made up with zero personal knowledge every single time a Wilson thread comes up. It really is like a disease with you people. Can't you go bother people in the private school, MD or VA forums?

[Anonymous]

Wilson has not cracked down hard on anything. Not sure what you are talking about. DCPS became more strict about attendance after the Ballou scandal.
Drugs are definitely all over Wilson. Last year they had to call multiple ambulances during the school day because several kids became ill after ingesting some questionable drugs