<p>Ugh, brings back bad memories of a guy I thought was a good friend who took advantage of, and manipulated my brother and countless others to sell drugs and support his own drug habit (mainly adderall, but marijuana and some others as well). He was found out after he got over confident and found a way to steal over 15 grand from my parents. Clean-cut, very good-looking, charming, wealthy, college student on a lax scholarship who was so, so smart and could have become anything he wanted. Spoiled rotten though, his parents bought him a $100,000 car for just going to college, and promised to buy him any house under a million if he got into med school. They were absolutely devastated when they found out, his poor sweet mom actually fainted. Good intentions gone wrong, good boy gone wrong as well. Now he’s in rehab and his life is in ruined. It really messed up my brother and the others he used as well. Before he started, he was this honest, hardworking, genius kid who was so much fun to be around. I’m pretty sure I know exactly when he started because all of a sudden he acted tired all the time, lost all motivation, and acted like a total brat many times with extreme mood swings and whatnot. Drugs are no small thing, they really mess up the person abusing them, and that person leaves a wake of people behind him who get deeply hurt because of his actions.</p>
<p>Because of this I consider it a big deal. We don’t even begin to see all the lives that have been directly or indirectly ruined or messed up by this. I’m sure their parents are heartbroken, and their futures aren’t so bright anymore. It’s very sad, and I can almost guarantee this happens at every school with affluent students. Some of the smartest people just don’t have much common sense. That said I don’t know what the law could do to stop them. Nobody cares about laws anymore, they just do whatever is right in their own minds without taking into consideration that the laws are there for a reason. Everyone plays god these days, and it’s ended up badly more often than not.</p>
<p>It’s news. It’s news because it is rare that someone of that profile gets caught doing these sort of things. Not much written about certain drug busts. And if it does make it in the paper, no one outside of those knowing those mentioned will even remember the names most of the time. FOr things to hit home, they generally have to hit close to us or be of enormous magnitude. I think this is more of the former than the latter. There have been drug busts far more massive that wouldn’t get mention in our CC forum The first several words of this post is what brings this home to this forum and to many others.</p>
<p>just a thought…maybe this is the attitude a generation gets when a certain someone in power says he never inhaled and DID NOT have sex with THAT woman and suffered no consequences…</p>
<p>Some years ago, a young person that went to one of my kids’ schools, was busted for dealing at college. Went ta college,prep schools very similar to those mentioned in this situation Some hard time was done. Yes. Even though parent was an attorney and the best legal efforts were made to make punishment as lenient as possible. Went back to college—yes, another like school took this person, a selective "good’ LAC. yes took the now convicted felon. Finished up and is now working a very good job, though yes, it’s on the record. So people do get over these things. This was about 10 years or so ago. This is not news to me–though that it made such a news splash is, and I don’t know the magnitudes of this. Knowing some of the players, the ones that do come from such backgrounds, have a much better chance of surmounting this sort of thing than those who have little or nothing. That is my take on the situation.</p>
<p>It might be a big deal. It is hard to draw a conclusion at this point, what with the limited evidence they seem to have, or at least that has been released to the public, at this point. They’ve got one guy saying he made $1,000 per week for selling marijuana. We don’t know who he sold it to, and how far along this “plan” had gotten with respect to actually selling at the high schools mentioned. I didn’t see any evidence indicating that anyone actually sold anything at the schools, it sounded more like a plan, but I may have missed it.</p>
<p>The issue is not AR-15 is legal or not in PA, it probably is. It is if they are getting ready for a drug war. That is scary. </p>
<p>Funny thing is legalizing marijna in CA seems to have started this operation. One of the “king pins” got the idea when he was interning in a California dispensary. He thought that high quality weed will be in high demand back home.</p>
<p>It’s also a big deal in that it was systemized. Any drug dealing I knew about was not. Just opportunity and catch as catch can. this was truly a drug ring, a system, a business. That someone with the background, family, opportunities that some of these people had, got into this sordid business is a shame. And shame will be spread to them their schools, peers and families to to the notoriety they have already gotten from all of this. </p>
<p>Think about it. These are not helpless kids. With their eyes open , they made a conscious calculation that this is a good business. And they may be right, too. That’s what’s scary. </p>
<p>See, I don’t think this is “scary” at all (other than the fact that they could go to jail for doing it in their state). The people of Colorado and Oregon and I forget where else, have already made the conscious calculation that selling pot is a good business. It is not surprising at all that these young men agree. </p>
<p>Whatever they were selling, they could get it from them, or they could get it from someone else. The fact that these guys were selling it doesn’t mean anything. That’s the problem with trying to legislate something so many people want out of existence.</p>