Doggin’ on Drugs

I was minding my own business, daydreaming, when my thoughts were interrupted by the high school principal I was supposed to be conversing with. I guess high school principals will never stop doing that to me, no matter how old I get. I had been pretending to listen to him for the past hour or so, when suddenly something he said smacked me across the face like a feminist would after asking her to bring me a beer. Suddenly, I had been informed that drug dogs are brought through the school at random times, sniffing about for illegal substances. Do we really need drug dogs? What is wrong with our schools?

I don’t mean “What is wrong with our schools when they aren’t safe from illegal substances?” I mean “What is wrong with our schools when we have to go about searching for a little weed a kid might have one him.” I’ve said a million times before that I have never and will never smoke pot, but that does not mean no one should be able to. I’m completely in favor of legalizing it for different reasons. The higher-ups don’t agree with that, because it’s probably against Jesus or something. I don’t know what the reason is, to be honest. It’s legal to drink yourself retarded as long as you don’t drive, so I don’t understand the logic.

Whatever. My taxes are paying to keep stoners in jail with murderers and rapists. That’s not my choice, but it’s the way it is. That’s not what bothers me with this situation at the school. What bugs me is that the authorities are so passionate to throw someone in jail, they bring drug dogs into the hallways and the classrooms. When this is happening, if a student asks to leave the classroom, the student must be escorted. They’re not just punishing those who might happen to get caught, but they are actually making high efforts to try to catch young, impressionable people. Sure, if you’re teaching a class and a kid leans over and a bag of pot falls out of his shirt pocket, and everyone else sees it happen, you can’t just turn away. You have to report it or you’re fucked. That’s not what this is. This is bringing in the police with dogs trained to follow specific smells in order to bring kids to “justice.”

Then what do they do? They throw the kid out of school! What is that, some kind of cruel joke? Is that what we want to do? Do we want to make sure as many kids as possible are thrown out of school? Face it: most kids who are the type to bring pot to school are the ones who need to be encouraged in school, not kicked out of it! What do you say? “I didn’t want him to be a burden on society, so I kicked him out of school.” Oh really? What’s he doing now that he’s 36 years old with no high school diploma, still living in his mom’s basement? Yeah, yeah, there are plenty of smart people who smoke pot. They are literally making themselves dumber every time they inhale, but some people can afford to lose a few brain cells. It’s the ones who are total stoners who don’t have smarts to start with I’m talking about. Why throw them out of school? So they can get worse? Again, I don’t understand the logic.