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

Gatt wrote:
> "nimue" <cup_o_cakes@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Again -- I was under the impression that this was a huge campsite,
>> state park kind of place where he could reasonably assume he had
>> privacy.
>
> Ft. Stevens is the largest state park in America except for Gulf
> Shores, Alabama.  There's plenty of room for privacy.  Somehow, he
> got caught. 'Course, when he did, he told the police the truth.
>
>>> The community must really respect the guy, though.
>>
>> That says a lot.  They want to keep him.  They really, really do.
>> So why not keep him?  Good principals are hard to find and his
>> smoking pot just isn't reason enough to fire a good principal who is
>> doing his job, imo.
>
> I think that given his position he could lead by example and enroll
> in a rehabilitation program or something similar now that he's NOT
> worried about keeping his job.  (IE, he's not pulling a Senator and
> trying to find justification for his behavior by bailing out to
> rehab.)

That would irritate me.  Why should he enroll in a rehabilitation program
for something that isn't a problem?  Would someone enroll in rehab for
having a glass of wine?  I see the two as equivalent.  If he did it, I
could
understand why he did -- to save his career -- but I think it would be
pointless.  It would be wrong to perpetuate this myth that pot is somehow
evil and people need some rehab program to get over it.
>
> -c

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nimue

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