Canadian Group Holds Meth Awareness School Assemblies
June 19th, 2009 by Russ
As a child of the 80s, I have vivid memories of a “Just Say No” campaign that introduced the dangers of crack-cocaine to a group of seven-year-olds in my second grade class. It seems that the more things change, the more they stay the same. In response to a widely spreading crystal meth epidemic among street youth, British Columbia is taking its fight back into the classroom.
The Crystal Meth Society of British Columbia holds school assemblies for grade school children of various ages, and doesn’t pull many punches in doing so. One of the main features of their performance is a grizzly video entitled, Death by Jib.
According to one parent:
After watching Death by Jib I wanted to immediately take the video home to show my teenagers. There is something in this video for everyone.
That is, assuming your teenagers enjoy watching grizzly youth deaths brought on by inopportune abuse of a hallucinogen. It’s hard to look at Canada’s Drug Aware101 program and see anything markedly different from the D.A.R.E tactics that have been in American schools for decades.
As several studies have shown, most D.A.R.E programs either have a completely negligible effect on the children’s likeliness to try new drugs, or actually can cause them to be more likely to experiment with drugs. As many drug academics and former law enforcement have argued, it’s often much more effective to simply inform kids about the realities of the drug world, rather than trying ot inflate or exaggerate the dangerous in an attempt to scare them. American kids seem to be a great deal more discerning than these drug educational programs give them credit for. It remains to be seen whether the same can be said of young Canadiens.
In the meantime, The Crystal Meth Society of BC will endeavor to be “crystal clear” about the realities of a very dangerous substance.
Student Lights up in Front of Class, Awesome
June 3rd, 2009 by Erin
I remember giving a presentation on legalizing marijuana when I was in college… mine consisted of some “persuasive facts” and a pretty lousy PowerPoint.
Maybe if I had bigger balls (or any for that matter,) I would have done what a student at Peninsula High School in Purdy, Washington did Tuesday morning: Spark up in front of my audience.
According to Pierce County Sheriff’s Detective Ed Troyer, in an attempt to support the notion that use of marijuana has no definitive correlation with intelligence, the 17-year old junior (with a 3.7 GPA no less) smoked a joint while giving his presentation supporting pot legalization.
Once his class exhibition ended, he walked back to his seat, casually sat down, finished the joint, and ate the last remaining evidence, the roach. I bet it tasted like sweet, sweet victory until of course, he was later arrested for possession of marijuana.
Dude in Washington, forget the possession charge. You get today’s “Awesome Award.” A+
Plants Found at Italian School Garden
October 30th, 2006 by Tim
Back in my day, we had to walk seven god damn miles uphill in the blistering snow to get to our single-classroom school. We sure as hell didn’t have any weed growing in the gardens. Needless to say, my school wasn’t in Italy.
Italian police discovered 13 mature plants (approximately 6 ft tall) growing in the garden of the school at Sant’Antimo. Two sons, age 30 and 31, of the garden’s caretaker were caught and arrested after harvesting the plants in preparation for resale. Total yield of their plants measured up to around 2 lbs. That’s a pretty good crop.
Not only did these guys have the balls to grow on school grounds, the plants were growing merely yards away from classrooms. Smooth, guys.
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