Re: "It's just pot.": Double Standard?

Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

> "Bo Raxo" <crimenewscenter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>"Paul J. Berg" <pjberg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>`
>>>School principal Aaron Miller is a drug-addict and is no example for
the
>>>children of Vernonia, Oregon or anywhere else.
>>>
>>
>>Marijuana is not addictive, and there is no evidence that he is even a
>>habitual user, much less an addict.
>>
> 
> 
> Your right, he isn't a drug addict.
> 
> But, he IS a drug ABUSER.
> 
> I used to smoke pot myself and am very aware of it's effects.  Anybody
> that smokes weed knows that it's illegal.  And, is the smoker is USING
pot,
> the ARE NOT going to be smoking it in public, much less a park that
> is miles from home.
> 
> You have a school principal here who is risking his job and possibly his
> remaining career so he can smoke some grass in a public park.  In short,
> the guy cannot even wait an hour to get home and have a toke.
> 
> For all the defenders out there, how exactly was this guy supposed
> to get home from this park he was toking out in?  Walk home?  I
> very much doubt it.  No, he was just going to toke out and then
> get in his car and drive home.  As in, under the influence.

You don't know that.  In America a person has to commit a crime before 
they can be guilty of it.  This is not Minority Re****t.


>>>This is the example that lets children think that it is O.K. to do
>>>drugs.
>>>
>>
>>No, your attitude is an example of the oversimplification that makes
>>children not believe adults when they talk about drugs. Lumping together
> 
> all
> 
>>drugs, from marijuana to crack, under the same heading, calling someone
a
>>drug addict when they are using a substance that isn't even addictive,
> 
> it's
> 
>>these kind of stupid mistakes that explain why adults have little
>>credibility when they try to demonize all drugs with kids.
>>
> 
> 
> Teenagers today know the score on pot perfectly well.  They are
intelligent
> enough to know that a teacher is pretty much required by school policy
> to say that recreational drug use is bad.

You are telling half of the deal here.  You are omitting the dangerous
part.


> What kids today need is positive examples of role models.  I would not
call
> an adult who takes as stupid a risk as this guy did any kind of positive
> role
> model.  To me, him smoking pot ina public park is as stupid as riding a
> motorcycle without a helmet.

IOW his crime in your eyes is not that he smoked pot so much as that he 
got caught doing it.  There's a lovely lesson to teach our kids.


>>>If  Mr. Miller was the school's janitor would he still have his job?
>>
>>If he was the school's janitor, would the school board have even found
out
>>about the citation?  Would it have made the news?
>>
> 
> 
> Irrelevant, schools are not holding up janitors as role models.

Why not?  If kids know that janitors are getting arrested for possession 
and keeping their jobs, won't that affect them too?


>>>perhaps. But he is in such a significant position that it doesn't
matter
>>>how nice he is, he has an addiction and the children may be a risk.
>>>
>>
>>How are children at risk if he smokes pot on the weekend?  A significant
>>percentage of those teenagers - and their parents - have smoked
marijuana,
>>if they are in any way representative of statistical averages.
>>
> 
> 
> If he smoks pot on the weekend in the privacy of his home then fine,
they
> are certainly not at risk.  If he does so in a public place, gets high,
then
> drives home then he's putting a lot of people at risk.

If he breaks the law, it's OK so long as he doesn't get caught?

You are funny.

    - Ron   ^*^