==========================================================
Posted on 05/27/2019 3:19:06 PM PDT by Drango
Edited on 05/27/2019 3:39:57 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
A glimpse of student athletes in peak physical condition vaping just moments after competing in a football game led Stamford High School Principal Raymond Manka to reconsider his approach to the epidemic.
His Connecticut school traditionally has emphasized discipline for those caught with e-cigarettes. Punishments become increasingly severe with each offense, from in-school suspensions to out-of-school suspensions and, eventually, notification of law enforcement.
(Excerpt) Read more at cpr.org ...
Civilization cannot survive with twelve-year-olds having babies, fifteen-year-olds shooting one another, seventeen-year-olds dying of AIDS, and eighteen-year-olds graduating with diplomas they cannot read.
Newt didn't mention E-cigs, but he could have.
Vaping: pacifiers.
Vaping = Drug delivery device
When you smoke THC as in DABS or THC oils you don’t get the smell like would occur if you were smoking a pipe or a joint, the kids could just as easily be getting high as not.
Ok,so vaping is a gateway to cannibis but cannibis is not a gateway to heroin, coke, etc?
Model airplane glue was good enough for us when I was their age.
Suspension should not be used as a punishment because it just dumbs the kid down. What works is what they did when I was a kid — make them report to the school on Saturdays for detention or work. If they fail to report, step up the punishment — going Muslim on them if necessary — and go after the parents if they are not cooperating.
Exactly right. No different than an infusion pump, it’s job is to administer the addictive drug nicotine.
If people want to breathe and exhale water vapor, fine, take the nicotine out and problem solved. But as long as the nicotine is there, these device should be regulated by FDA and available only with a doctors prescription. That would satisfy those who claim they can help people quit smoking.
Of course they can be used to administer any number of other drugs as well, many of which are even worse.
What utter horseshit. Teachers came out to the smoking area in high school back in the 70s.
Now the Left, and some on the Right, wish to approve pot smoking and demonize vaping.
What a load.
FR is apparently conducting a loud holy war on water vapor.
have to agree. this is weird thread full of loud, angry, big government liberal types.
Demonize ADDICTION. Fixed it for you.
no, just clouded the issue to the point where you’re apparently comfortable with using government coercion to enforce economic choices that you self righteously feel qualified to make for everyone else.
when ReBamaLosi hijacked our healthcare,the hijackers insisted it was for our own good.
not much difference between them and the water vapor hysterics.
no, just clouded the issue to the point where you’re apparently comfortable with using government coercion to enforce economic choices that you self righteously feel qualified to make for everyone else.
**********
School kids are not in the “everyone else” class. Sure, there are dumb rules that we impose on kids, such as criminalizing marijuana use and possession of hunting rifles; but we can’t allow school kids to decide what rules to follow or to make their own rules. Kids who don’t respect legitimate authority turn into ghetto gang bangers.
By that line of thinking, Marlboro Red Box et al are gateway drugs to cannibus, candy cigarettes are a gateway drug to Marlboro Red Box et al, pixie stix are a gateway drug to candy cigarettes, granulated sugar is a gateway drug to pixie stix, and corn flakes are a gateway drug to granulated sugar.
Clearly, the solution is to ban corn flakes.
But riddle me this, Batman: if it took a Constitutional Amendment to ban alcohol, how can a proper "conservative" be philosophically consistent if he/she wants to ban corn flakes (or drugs) without a Constitutional Amendment?
The ones that give a cheery two-thumbs up to the War on Drugs are no different from Chuck Schumer trying to ban guns.
that may not be the dumbest thing I’ve ever read on al gore’s innerwebz, but it’s probably in the top 20.
comparing the war on drugs to a temper tantrum over water vapor is silly and unserious.
Agree.
==========================================================
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.