Had she shaken out her bra and out drops Ecstasy or crack, then what? (Reason never would have printed the story, for one. Meaning we never would have heard about it.)
You're trying to minimize the Advil. She distributed a prohibited drug. Period. It's Advil. So?
If you think that should be OK, fine, write it into the school rules that kids can exchange Advil in the hallways along with any other legal drug they want.
But don't come out after the fact and say, "It's only Advil".
Not that I'm surprised.
No, but they know what they expected to find, if anything---the thing for which they were looking. I seem to remember a certain something about searches in a document I read somewhere . . . you might have read it . . . something about warrants and probable cause, particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. Hmm. That would seem to make the sort of fishing expedition you propose here a tad, um, wrong.
The more you stick to this "well, the girl could've been pushing an entire illegal drug pharmacy out of her panties," the crazier you sound. You do realize that, don't you? Only you are making the leap that if she's distributing Advil out of her skivvies, then she's probably dealing Ecstasy out of there as well.
Hey, why stop with strip searches at school? Let's just allow the cops to search any home or car they wish. Never know what they will find.