Post Millennial:
A Michigan school district issued a letter to parents and guardians on Wednesday requesting them to stop smoking marijuana in school parking lots during drop-off and pick-up times. Superintendent Jim Neilsen of the Orchard View School District made it clear that smoking marijuana on school property is against the law. He also expressed concerns about parents driving under the influence.
“I am reaching out to address a concern that has recently come to our attention, and although it’s not a message I expected to write as a school administrator, I feel it is a message that needs to be sent. As the weather warms up and more windows are rolled down during school drop-off and pick-up, we’ve received multiple reports of a strong odor of marijuana coming from vehicles on school property,” Superintendent Neilsen wrote in a letter to families. “Orchard View School is a drug-free zone, and the possession or use of marijuana on school grounds is strictly prohibited.” more
SNIP: Recently, I was at a store and a dude was so immersed in fresh weed, he stunk up about a quarter of the store. That guy was so high he floated. I finally had to leave because I was so nauseated from the smell. He was shopping with a woman and a toddler. I wondered, who drove?
Every generation is getting worse.
What we need to reverse is the generational devolution of our society in general that started with “If it feels goo, do it” from the 60s. The chimp we are approaching is screaming “Go back! Go back!”
Edit: “If it feels good, do it”
Just have the cops arrest every pot-smoking parent for DUI and child endangerment, which are still illegal, and if any of them are carrying, for violating Federal law.
Do it right, you wont have to do it twice.
Why doesn’t the superintendent do his job and just call the police when someone is smoking dope on school grounds. The letter sent out states it’s illegal. Apparently he isn’t concerned enough about the safety of kids being transported by people under the influence, as he states. If there were parents getting drunk in the school parking lot, would there be this weak response?
Harry, maybe it should be goo since that’s what happens to your brain when you smoke too much dope, your brain turns into mind numbed as well as dumbed goo. Marijuana should never have been legalized, didn’t we learn how bad it was back in the 60’s and 70’s and now that it’s been legalized it only makes it worse with the far stronger shit available now than the crap we smoked back in the day. I’m extremely glad that I haven’t smoked dope in almost 50 years as of Labor Day weekend 1975.
geoff – agreed and pretty much the same here.
“Michigan school district asks parents to stop smoking marijuana in school parking lot during drop-off, pick-up”
Come into the classrooms like the teachers do.
I worked for a doctor and his nurse was a heavy weed smoker. He kept messing up the charts and lab work, so the doctor fired him. I took over until he could find a replacement. Never having done anything medical before, I did better than he did, so my doctor only hired a part time nurse so I could continue half the day.
Marijuana should never have become legal.
In this district, more than the divorced parents have joint custody.
Let me guess…..
The woman up the road from me drops her 2 kids at the corner every morning and afternoon for the school bus to pick them up. She’s sits in the drivers seat with her window cracked some, smoking weed with her kids in the back seat, till the bus shows up to take them. The US post office delivered weed seeds to my mail box by mistake last year, they were for her.
…I was in HS in the ’70s, with a smoking area and a wavevof young, hip, Black teachers. I had found early on that I didnt have a taste for it, which was good because that meant my babysitter didnt have to send me to jail.
Yes, she could have.
…while I didnt like pot, I smoked like a chimney and my school DID accomodate that with an outdoor smoking area. This area was available at lunchtime and was proctored by the same teacher for most of my run before I escaped to vocational school, a young Black man considered the coolest teacher in school who actually went by the initial “Mr. J”. Mr. J was OK with the potheads (and may well have been supplying them), so much so that all a toker would have to do on his apporach is call out “Hey Mr. J, turn around” and he would LITERALLY walk past them SIDEWAYS so he would not “see” them.
This is where my babysitter comes in.
…the school administration was NOT OK with the pot ssmoking and CERTAINLY aware of it (pot smelled MUCH nicer then, but still smelled strong and clung to clothes), but also noticed their hip, young teacher wasnt stopping it. Being as he was Black in the ’70s, then as now they couldnt just fire him in the era of rising Black Conscieneness so they called the police in for help. One of the officers assigned was a young woman who was at the cutting edge of the nascent Woman’s Movement hiring practices for the City, a young lady who not that long ago cut her teeth in dealing with rowdy youth by babysitting them, me being one of the rowdy youth she, as a next door neighbor girl had babysat some years ago. She still looked youthful and female cops werent typical then so they thought she’d be a good choice as an undercover.
I found out some time later that she WAS concerned that I would recognize her as she certainly recognized ME, but freshman me dealing with pimples and puberty in the big new school was pretty shy around the ladies at the time so there was ZERO chance Id dare look into her face long enough to recognize her (Im also terrible with facial recognition to this day),but she didnt know that.
Anyway, I didnt out her or smoke pot so there was a massive arrest of druggies and drug dealers, Mr. J and some other teachers got fired and jailed, and pot smoking was no more during the rest of my sentence there.
All of which proved that even in a progressive, integrated, socially conscious school in the free love and dope Sonny and Cher period that drug laws ABSOLUTELY were still enforced, and smoking pot was NOT tolerated around HS students and you would HAVE to take that shit off-campus.
And it would be pretty durn easy to do the same thing TODAY. Have the police go to the cars in the parking lot that smell of pot, find the roaches, and at least arrest the drivers for stoned driving as even in permissive states like MI it is STILL illegal to be behind the wheel under the influence.
If they did, the pot smoking would go away TODAY.
The problem is that the school only ASKS. They are probably afraid too many Black people and too many teachers would be caught up in any enforcement. And in the year of our Lord 2025, it is unlikely to go anywhere in Democrat courts anyway, so the pot smoking continues and the kids go home in cars driven by stoned to the eyeballs parents.
…I know some of this stuff about my babysitter/UP from the horse’s own mouth as she was still with the same city as a detective when I became a firefigher there, but thats a different story for another day…
Michigan OVI law.
“(3) A person, whether licensed or not, shall not operate a vehicle on a highway or other place open to the general public or generally accessible to motor vehicles, including an area designated for the parking of vehicles, within this state when, due to the consumption of alcoholic liquor, a controlled substance, or other intoxicating substance, or a combination of alcoholic liquor, a controlled substance, or other intoxicating substance, the person’s ability to operate the vehicle is visibly impaired. If a person is charged with violating subsection (1), a finding of guilty under this subsection may be rendered.”
https://legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=MCL-257-625
…parking lots included…
Good thing they weren’t smoking cigarettes, they would’ve been pulled from their cars and beaten.
^^^ Whipped with a hemp rope…
My wife and I were in one of those small IKEA kitchen showroom outposts today. We were the only people in there, aside from three employees, sitting at workstations positioned in different areas of the store, such that they could not see each other, and we could see one of them if we happened to turn to right corner in the maze of kitchens.
Nobody acknowledged our presence, and we almost felt like intruders. The pungent smell of weed near the back door area only added to the weirdness. After about ten minutes of looking around, we headed for the door. A couple had just walked in just before we left, and suddenly the reek of weed was wafting around the entrance. We got outside as busted out laughing at the curb.
But it wasn’t really funny. This was just one of many incidents we had where people were sparking up in normal businesses and other quite public areas, either not knowing or not caring who knew. And this doesn’t include the countless times we have been behind somebody who was obviously driving and frying.
I read of many incidents in the police blotter, where the cop pulls somebody over for a failure to signal, a broken taillight or something, but I think what happens is that the cop had pulled in behind some idiot who was leaving a trail of weed reek down the road, and the cop didn’t have to look very far to find a visible violation. Because that’s how potheads roll.
My dudes, please do not blaze up by the loading dock after work. Don’t do it rolling down the road. You’re not fooling anyone. Everybody just thinks you’re a dumbass loser, even if you’re driving a Porsche. Especially if you’re driving a Porsche. And fix your taillight, okay?
adds: no shooting, twerking, ghetto-blasting, double parking, line cutting, etc.
caint call de polees on de privileged people
It may be illegal, but the cops won’t do anything; that would be racist.