June 11, 2005
REEFER LOCHNESS:
Many Scots pupils 'too stoned to study' (KEVIN SCHOFIELD, 6/11/05, The Scotsman)
SCOTLAND'S schools are being gripped by a growing "cannabis culture", with increasing numbers of pupils turning up for class under the influence of drugs, it was claimed yesterday.Delegates at the annual conference of the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS), the country's main teaching union, heard how some youngsters even queue up at the school gates before the morning bell to buy marijuana.
The conference, being held in Perth, was told the problem was adding to the difficulties caused by growing classroom indiscipline and truancy.
Give them a chance and "medical marijuana" advocates will do the same for our schools. Posted by Orrin Judd at June 11, 2005 8:05 AM
My school wasn't much different than this in 1976.
OJ: lack of supply is not the reason that kids don't high for school.
Posted by: Robert Schwartz at June 11, 2005 10:27 AMRobert Schwartz:
Yep -- it's remarkably easy to get.
Posted by: Matt Murphy at June 11, 2005 11:40 AMWhen it first appeared, so-called "medical marijuana" was supposed to help relieve the nausea and loss of appetite that can come with chemotherapy and some other drug treatments. It was a rare, and fairly specific thing.
Yet all the "advocates" I hear these days only talk about how it relieves their "headaches" and "backaches" and "arthritis." I'd much rather these people abandon the medical quackery (or at least stick to well established quackery like chiropracty and copper bracelets) and come right out and say, "I just wanna excuse to get stoned, man."
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at June 11, 2005 12:07 PMThat's a real 'conservative' position, OJ. Parents abandon their responsibility to steer their children away from self-destructive behavior so Big Government has to intervene with a meat-ax approach with little to no basis in reality and no record of success.
How about throwing kids out who are 'stoned' and letting only the students attend school? Lock 'em up if they commit crimes and make the parents pay restitution. Let the parents take some minimal responsibility for a change and see what happens.
Posted by: bart at June 11, 2005 1:06 PMPlus, I don't think marijuana use is legal in Scotland.
Posted by: Mike Beversluis at June 11, 2005 1:44 PMbart:
Even easier: first offense you lose your driving privileges until age 25; second offense access to guaranteed student loans.
Posted by: oj at June 11, 2005 1:52 PMRegardless of whether "medical marijuana" is good or bad, I don't want the federal government getting involved in banning it. The Interstate Commerce clause is getting seriously abused.
In addition, I like the idea of places like California being the "crash test dummies" for the rest of the United States. Let them try it out, just like they tried out a lot of other wacky ideas, just like Canada showed us what happens with government health care.
Sometimes liberals just have to suffer before they can learn.