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Amsterdam forced to ban smoking marijuana in schools because of number of students turning up stoned
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By SAM WEBB
PUBLISHED: 13:12, 12 December 2012

  • Netherlands' relaxed drug laws exposing children to the drug
  • Mayor passes law as some schools have problem with pupils high in class
  • Move comes after Holland allows tourists to continue using the drug

Amsterdam's today became the first city in the Netherlands to ban students from smoking marijuana at school. The city's mayor Eberhard van der Laan introduced the law after school chiefs complained about pupils turning up to classes high after rolling up outside the grounds. Marijuana is widely available in Holland as, although it is technically illegal, police can't prosecute people for possession of small amounts. But it has also had the unwanted side effect that Dutch children are frequently exposed to the drug in public areas.

City spokeswoman Iris Reshef says schools have always forbidden pot, but found it difficult to enforce the policy when students smoked on or near campus and challenged administrators to do anything about it. 'It's not really what you have in mind as an educator, that children would be turning up for class stoned, or drunk either for that matter,' she said. 'But it has been a problem for some schools.'
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...a-schools-number-students-turning-stoned.html
 
Wonder what they do if the kid shows up after taking 3 of his adderall with pupils the size of golf balls.

Time to run in Physical Education class!
 
I was going to say, there were kids in high school I went to school with who were loud and proud about needing cannabis to eat, to sleep, to chill out, and they seemed just as normal and well adjusted of a person as anyone else I met in high school.
 
I worked for about eight months testing budget games before I came to my senses and decided I was worth more than that. Though the work wasn’t great, it wasn’t quite the sweatshop drudgery that some others have experienced. I don’t have any good stories about incompetent bosses or corrupt management, just memories of boredom and exhaustion… and one particular coworker, who I’ll nickname Paul.

Paul must have liked to “wake and bake”, because for the two months I knew him, he came in five days a week, every week, with bloodshot eyes and smelling like he’d just doused himself in air freshener to cover up a different smell. He always had this laid back attitude and spoke slowly and casually.

We all talked about him being blazed behind his back, good natured joking, of course, because he was never an irritation to anyone. Nobody ever had the guts to ask him about it to his face, and he never brought it up himself, but we all knew.

At first we all figured he’d work for a couple weeks and they would let him go for lack of productivity, but he’s the thing - he *kicked ass* at his job. I don’t know if being in an altered state of mind helped him divine bugs, but he was cranking out reports left and right, finding problems the rest of us would have never dreamed of. Our behind-his-back conversations took on an air of admiration. I respected the guy for what he accomplished and tried never to begrudge him for making us all look lazy in comparison.

Then one day, walking back from the bathroom, I overheard the boss having a conversation with him. “Paul, you come in every day with your eyes bloodshot, and you seem slightly disconnected. You do good work, but I want you to start getting more sleep.”

I still don’t know if the boss was trying to give him a subtle hint, or he was actually clueless where those bloodshot eyes came from, but after that, Paul started coming in to work sober, and his productivity dropped like an ACME anvil. Two weeks later, he stopped coming into work altogether.

May be there’s a lesson in there, but I probably shouldn’t look for one.
Good luck Paul. I hope you wore sunglasses to your next job.
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-- Anonymous, The Trenches
 
I enjoyed getting baked at school, amongst other things. :)
 
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