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Special report: Marijuana and K-12 schools
Written by Nancy Mitchell on Feb 5th, 2012. | Copyright © EdNewsColorado.org
K-12..? So are there a lot of stoned kindergardners? And just because a dispensary is close to a school…well that must be where the kids are getting it! Probably on free samples for everyone day! Because its not like those places will even let you in the door without a medical card! It would be easier for a kid to sneek into a stripclub! The problem isn’t Dispensarys…its dealers! As long as marijuana is illegal, its going to be expensive (laws of supply n demand) and dealers will sell it because that can make money off it! By moving marijuana from a schedule 1 drug (heroin, meth). To a schedule 2 drug (cocaine).. we can end the 40yrs of locking away our kids and loved ones and stop spending billions on a failed war on drugs that can’t even slow down the drugs entering our country. It’s time for a new direction!
In addition to the many societal costs of prohibition, it has a long history of driving the spread of harder or more dangerous drugs.
* Poppies to morphine to heroine to krokodil
* Coca to cocaine to crack
* Ephedra to ephedrine to speed to methamphetamine
* Marijuana to skunk to dangerous synthetic concoctions such as ‘spice’ or ‘bath salts’
* Mushrooms to ecstasy to 2CB/designers
At every step the reasons for the rise in popularity of the new form of the drug are one or more of the following:
* It may easier to smuggle.
* It may be more addictive, thus compelling the buyer to return more frequently.
* It may be cheaper to produce therefore yielding more profit.
* Like a game of “whack a mole” a shutdown of producers in one area will mean business opportunities for another set of producers with a similar product.
Prohibition’s distortion of the immutable laws of ‘supply and demand’ subsidizes organized crime, foreign terrorists, corrupt cops & politicians and feeds the prejudices of self-appointed culture warriors. So called Tough-On-Drugs politicians have happily built careers on confusing drug prohibition’s horrendous collateral damage with the substances that they claim to be fighting, while the big losers in this battle are everybody else, especially taxpayers.
How come so many of us have been deluded into believing that big government is the appropriate response to non-traditional consensual vices?
Imagine if we were to chop down every single tree on the planet as a response to our failure to prevent tree-climbing accidents. That’s what our misguided drug policy looks like. Isn’t it time we all stood up and told the government we’re tired of being beaten and jailed so that pharmaceutical companies can poison and kill us for obscene profits?
Prohibition Prevents Regulation : Legalize, Regulate and Tax!
Are there really people who still fall for this fiction?
Why is it that bars and liquor stores near schools don’t cause the our young scholars to want to become drunkards?
Why the tactics of yellow journalism being promoted in a media outlet allegedly about education?
Exactly why is it that we’re looking at “drug” violations rather than cannabis violations? Are people supposed to believe that no one would get high on anything other than drinking alcohol if cannabis didn’t exist?
Wow, you people must really believe your readers are stupid!
Jesus said to do unto others as we would have them to do unto us. None of us would want our child or grandchild thrown in jail with the sexual predators over marijuana. None of us would want to see an older family member’s home confiscated and sold by the police for growing a couple of marijuana plants for their aches and pains.
If the people who want to use marijuana could grow a few plants in their own back yards, it would be about as valuable as home-grown tomatoes; it would put the drug gangs out of business and get them out of our neighborhoods.
Try this again. My goodness. Users sure do become hostile at the thought of loosing their –what– crutch? Silly people. They should see the mass murders going on in Mexico and then try to deny their part in the deaths of thousands, in the name of their drug habits.
Can’t type, and I don’t even have an excuse!
This line is is straight Hollywood ”’They repeatedly cited the proximity of medical marijuana dispensaries to their schools and the saturation of medical marijuana in their communities. Students, in particular, talked about their belief that medical marijuana is healthy.”’
So let me get this right, The kids are all able to go into a dispensary and get marijuana now? Or was that not ask?
The kids in Elementary know how to roll it and smoke it? They’re getting caught with marijuana on them?
Straight garbage.
“Students, in particular, talked about their belief that medical marijuana is healthy.” And they are right, it is. At least they aren’t doing their parents pharma pills or drinking alcohol. When these dispensaries do move further than a thousand feet from a school and you don’t solve your “problem” (rise in teenage use), what will your excuse be then? Do you really believe that a dispensary near by is the real problem? Do you really believe that kids get their Cannabis from a dispensary? Have you ever hung out at a dispensary to see if kids are really going in? Have you ever been into a dispensary? You cannot get into a dispensary without an ID and a license. Has any of these kids ever stated they got their Cannabis from a dispensary? How about addressing the real issue that the real problem is that Cannabis is illegal? Have you even researched to see exactly what it is that is so terrIbly wrong with Cannabis? Or do you just watch the news media and believe what you are told? I have researched Cannabis and found nothing wrong with it. Absolutely nothing! Since I have lived here in Colorado, less than a year, I have learned that Cannabis is truely a miracle plant. A cure all for whatever ails you. You should see for yourself. It’s absolutely astounding. Don’t knock it till ya try it!