Texas ISD exemplifies Nationwide Problem
Monday, July 27th, 2009 at 9:20 am | By: Dudemaster
An average ISD in Texas has an alarming problem, their Children have Marijuana in their school!!!
From my alter-ego blog on our Dallas – Fort Worth NORML blog, I wrote a small rant about a local ISD poll that was taken in regards to cigarettes, alcohol, Marijuana and other drugs.
From the Dallas Morning News, Jessica Meyers, Reporters Notes:
Frisco ISD students surveyed on drug use:Shoved between a discussion of funding streams and TAKS results at Monday’s board meeting was a glimpse into Frisco ISD’s drug war.
About 4,000 students from seventh to 10th grade responded to a survey about drug and alcohol use in the district’s schools.
Almost 20 percent reported using alcohol in the past year. About 17 percent considered alcohol a major problem in FISD and 40 percent said it was an issue. Less than 10 percent reported using marijuana or other drugs, although 660 students said they first drank between ages 10 and 13. Almost 200 students said they started using drugs at roughly the same age.
Other results:
• 22 percent of students consider drugs a major problem in FISD
• 14.6 percent said they see marijuana on campus, 16 percent see pills and 8 percent see other drugs.In all reality, it’s easier to get Marijuana in school than alcohol or cigarettes. In fact, when polled, teens frequently admit the only place they can find alcohol or cigarettes is either from their parents or friends older than 21. In contrast, Marijuana is very easy to obtain because there isn’t a clerk asking for an ID and providing a high level of scrutiny. I don’t know how it is around the rest of the country, but in Texas, if a clerk sells alcohol or cigarettes to a minor, they go to jail. I don’t know any clerk willing to go to jail for minimum wage.
This couldn’t be more true, but not just for our ISD, but for yours. Ask a kid how hard it is to get drugs in their school, and then ask them where they get cigarettes and alcohol. One of my neighbors tells me he scores his best weed from his own kid who is in high school. Isn’t that amazing?
You need to do this, you need to ask them, you need to learn this for yourself.
Prohibitionists and the ignorant alike cry, “It’s for our children, it’s all for the kids!!” and continue to spread the word of ignorance. The truth is right in front of us, just ask them. Is the war against drugs working?
Help the children by helping us. Support and help us with the legalization of Marijuana so that it can be taxed and regulated.
Texas doesnt have any thing on wyoming, at least when i went to school. We smoked pot in the bathrooms of school in wyoming, then the middle of my senior year(woman trouble) i moved to chorpus christi. Not one hippy in the school tons of gangsters, closed campus, the sadness goes on and on! One day waitin for a ride i was smoking out side, school cop sees me, i toss the roach 10-15 feet in one foot tall weeds. Ass hole cop found it and got me expeled my senior year for a roach! Had to finish highschool in a prison boot camp! Plus been to jail in austin texas for weed twice, and headed back to texas tomorrow!
I live in North TX and have a school age child. All I know, is that if/and/or/when she is faced with the decision to use cannabis, I would rather her make an educated decision, knowing the pros/cons of it, like we do with alcohol and cigarettes. As well, I don’t want the potential threat of her being handled by our law enforcement. That is the real fear- getting caught. I wonder, when cannabis is finally legalized, will paranoia cease to be one of the possible side effects in some users?
makes me wish I had kids,but maybe the kids that do may never know cancer,not that I would encourage them to
What is ISD?
Independent School District
well I suppose one could argue that it is for the kids. Or at least they’re making it easier for the kids.