slimvictor
Bluelight Crew
Call it one win in the Spice Wars.
Last December, Santa Rosa School District officials were facing an outbreak of students using Spice, synthetic drugs that mimic marijuana.
Real pot is still the major drug violation in schools, but in 2011, the district had 16 spice-related expulsions, which had been fairly unknown until then.
So far this year, there have been three Spice expulsions, so that’s progress.
When the district started the crackdown last year, Superintendent of Schools Tim Wyrosdick says, he got dozens of emails from parents who were “blown away” at how available Spice was.
Indeed for every emergency order issued making components of the fake pot illegal, makers stay two steps ahead.
Like a low-rent version of “Breaking Bad” character Walter White, with a tweak here or there to the formulation, makers skirt the law.
And somehow keep getting their product into stores.
“Just think if they put all that knowledge to good use. They could get a job at 3M or something,” says Tony Stevenson, therapeutic team leader of the behavioral medicine department at Baptist Hospital.
cont at
http://www.pnj.com/article/20121228/COLUMNISTS01/312280009/Shannon-Nickinson-Spice-war-rages-schools
Last December, Santa Rosa School District officials were facing an outbreak of students using Spice, synthetic drugs that mimic marijuana.
Real pot is still the major drug violation in schools, but in 2011, the district had 16 spice-related expulsions, which had been fairly unknown until then.
So far this year, there have been three Spice expulsions, so that’s progress.
When the district started the crackdown last year, Superintendent of Schools Tim Wyrosdick says, he got dozens of emails from parents who were “blown away” at how available Spice was.
Indeed for every emergency order issued making components of the fake pot illegal, makers stay two steps ahead.
Like a low-rent version of “Breaking Bad” character Walter White, with a tweak here or there to the formulation, makers skirt the law.
And somehow keep getting their product into stores.
“Just think if they put all that knowledge to good use. They could get a job at 3M or something,” says Tony Stevenson, therapeutic team leader of the behavioral medicine department at Baptist Hospital.
cont at
http://www.pnj.com/article/20121228/COLUMNISTS01/312280009/Shannon-Nickinson-Spice-war-rages-schools
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