I never did any drugs of any kind while on school premises, but knew of people who did (even at my ‘posh’ grammar school) and at times took things in, for one reason or another. Now that I’m older, if I was in the same position again, there’s no chance in a thousand years I’d do it again. Now I know that it was totally stupid, and not something that I should have done, but at the time I didn’t, nor do the majority of school age children. Do we really want to single out children in front of others a label them as ‘druggie’ etc, possibly impacting them for the rest of their lives, for what will probably be minor drug misdemeanours?

Just to clarify my position on this whole matter: I’m not saying that kids who use drugs in school shouldn’t be suitably punished, and for that matter anyone caught dealing on school grounds, but using sniffer dogs to do them for possession on the premises is going to far, as is random testing.

Anyway I could go on about this for hours, but the Bill is on so -->

i think there is a clear difference that needs to be shown between people having it in their pockets for a spliff on the way home, to actually caning it in school, and i think a lot of people do jusdt stick it in their pockets and take it with them just so their mum & dad dont find out...

as i said, i used to take ganja to school with me, but i didnt just stick it in my pocket. i used to be stoned at schoolol all the time, and i tell you what.. it certainly didnt do me any favours.

i agree with toni, that school is a place for learning, and that people shouldn't be allowed into school with it on them, just as much as they shouldn't be allowed in with a beer (in my eyes, alcohol and ganja are very much the same).. but i also think that it is a waste of money taking sniffer dogs into schools to try and curb the problem. sniffer dogs on average last approximatly 10 minutes before their noses get all confused and they have to fuck off and lie down like a good dog. so that means, to do a good scan of all the pupils they will need to have a number of dogs in there quite a lot, which is more of a waste of tax payers money than the odd kid having a spliff behind the bike shed.

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LMAO! Jeff, getting caned in school, bad boy. My misdemeanours were only ever collecting my weekend supply of sweeties on my Friday lunch break.

im sure its against Human Rights ??

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Originally posted by irishclubbing im sure its against Human Rights ??

that depends on how far you take human rights. we have sniffer dogs sniffin at us every time we go into a festival or large event, and that doesnt infringe our human rights, and its just as illegal to take drugs into a school as it is to take them into an event.

it is however an infringement of civil liberties.

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