<p>Wow almost everyone here is overreacting. Just switch rooms if it makes you that uncomfortable. There’s no need to turn your roommate into the police or anything drastic like that. It’s ridiculous that drugs are illegal in the first place.</p>
<p>^ There are a few places where you can’t switch rooms just like that once a certain time period is up. Besides the OP shouldn’t have to go through that hassle just cause her roomie a junkie. It’s not like it’s just weed or something, it’s coke, acid, etc. BIG time stuff.</p>
<p>Colleges do expel people for drugs. During my first week at my university, news went around that two kids were expelled after they were discovered using LSD in their dorms. </p>
<p>Write her up. You could get implicated for possession if she gets caught.</p>
<p>This is hilarious. </p>
<p>Don’t turn your roommate in. That’s stupid. Don’t report her, that’s a bitch move. If you’re really not comfortable with her keeping drugs in the room, then talk to her about it. If she doesn’t comply, then get over it.</p>
<p>You’re not going to get expelled. Eh, she might get in some serious trouble if they caught her, but that’s not going to happen. They can’t open drawers and rifle through your stuff…if you have something out in plain sight they can get you for it, but if it’s inside a drawer or a box they can’t search it. There’s a reasonable expectation of privacy, the university cannot impinge on it.</p>
<p>Basically, everyone needs to chill out. You have little to worry about.</p>
<p>I agree with that last poster. Your not getting in trouble. They need evidence of you selling. Just because cops think you possess drugs doesn’t mean they will arrest you unless they have some sort of evidence.</p>
<p>I’m not a lawyer (so this is not legal advice), but it’d be illegal for your college to do surprise inspections unless that’s been exempted by something in the housing contract. Plus, even if you do get in trouble, it’s the burden of the prosecution to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the drugs are yours. Since they’re not, and your roommate isn’t specifically framing you, that’s quite unlikely. In fact, it’ll probably end up that the university makes a big fuss about it, but none of you get in <em>legal</em> trouble.</p>
<p>In any case, if the drugs in the room make you uncomfortable, by all means, talk to her about it. If it doesn’t get resolved, seek the RA and RD. It’s your room as well as hers, and with how the legal system works in the US, you don’t have anything to lose. Charged isn’t enough to lose financial aid, but convicted is. Not to mention, that’s for selling, not mere posession.</p>
<p>As someone with a heavy course load, I can definitely understand where she is coming from with the drugs. However, if she’s not being discrete enough with it to the level where you know, then that’s an issue. Otherwise, it’d be a non-issue as there would never be a legal inspection that would turn it up. She should have been as discrete about them as matters related to sex.</p>
<p>You know, why don’t you talk to her first and if she doesn’t comply, talk to the RA? Say like you can’t get along with her blah blah and ask if its possible to switch rooms, maybe? I know at my school you can change rooms anytime you want during the semester if there are spaces open in other places. i really honestly don’t know but…</p>
<p>“Charged isn’t enough to lose financial aid, but convicted is. Not to mention, that’s for selling, not mere posession.”</p>
<p>No, it is for possession, too. You obviously know your stuff and the OP should take your advice.</p>
<p>I had a friend - this in highschool though mind you, but still - who was in the same bathroom as a couple kids who were doing a drug deal, and he happened to have about 20-40 bucks on him. The kids got caught and blamed it on him, and since he had the money on him the judge decided that he must have been trying to buy it from them. So be careful.</p>
<p>Hey OP</p>
<p>how’d the discussion with roommate go?</p>
<p>Kei</p>
<p>There have been several drug busts at my school in recent years, and some of them have been conducted by the police with search warrants. This all resulted as someone who was caught out of a big drug ring ratted a bunch of people out, and the week before everyone else was arrested he peaced out of the state to avoid repercussions from those who would have likely maimed him or more likely killed him. The police knew who was dealing, had records of several of them selling through undercover investigation, and five people were all arrested on the same morning. If your roommate is dealing, she maybe be found out by the POLICE, and if they find enough reason they may come busting down your door with a search warrant.</p>
<p>I personally would request a roommate change in this situation, as I’m not one to snitch in this sort of situation (other people may come for you after) but at the same time simply telling her to get the drugs out of your room may happen temporarily, but not in the long run. She can probably be much, much more discreet about it. This happened to a kid I knew, when he was a big-time dealer, everyone knew he was, but then when he “toned” it down, he ended up getting busted and landed in jail with a $50,000 bail. Dealers who try to quit often go back to it anyways. </p>
<p>If you do tell your RA or someone else, make sure you leave no record or reason that it might have been you. If her friends find out you snitched on her, that could suck.</p>