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If your kid was caught with oxycontin he bought from a kid at school who was supplied by someone else wouldn't YOU want the supplier AND the middleman held responsible?

I doubt that a kid a school would be buying oxycontin for pain. FReepers are smart enough to tell the difference between one student giving another an Advil, huffer, or Pepto Bismol and some Ritalin, X, or Oxyxcontin. Some schools' zero-tolerance policy makes all such drug dispensing the same crime.

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No, but a kid could be buying it to get looped, no?
I posted in the thread about the kid who saved another by sharing an asthma inhaler and is now getting crucified for it: I'm on the kid's side and agree that there are differences in situations that the zero-tolerance laws ignore. All drugs are NOT bad - it depends on the circumstances and situations to properly assess and judge how the laws should be administered. Protecting health and saving lives are MOST DEFINITELY NOT zero-tolerance issues.

I couldn't care even if his stepdaughter was sharing a bed with Arafat or clinton on alternate even-dated Wednesdays - that's HER business. All I'm saying is that he would've shown more character to the GENERAL public by admitting it right from the start, rather than secretly dropping out of sight, off the air, twice, for extended periods of time, explaining it as 'vacation', to do rehab - especially after his on-air goings-on about drug abuse and tolerance of crimes and offenses and all else RATHER than the way it happened (getting caught/exposed and THEN making explanations). Is it a case of "don't do as I do - do as I say"?