1 Student Expelled, 5 Suspended

1 student expelled, 5 suspended for abusing cold medicine
By Times Snohomish County Bureau

One student was expelled and five were suspended from Lynnwood High School after an incident in which five students were transported to a hospital for overdosing on an over-the-counter cold medicine.

The student who brought the medication to school and gave it to the others was expelled last Wednesday, the day after the incident. The others were suspended.

All of the students recovered. One student was not sick enough to warrant being taken to a hospital.

The medication, Coricidin Cough & Cold, contains an ingredient that can cause hallucinations, but another ingredient is toxic when taken in large amounts.

Link: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/snoh...2_expel22n.html

[silent voice of seduction]

Expel them damn abusers! Put that druggie scum in jail! Wipe them from the face of the earth!!!!

[Midknight]

I cannot totally disagree with expelling someone for handing out drugs in a school.

It's part of the policy and people should respect that and accept the consequences if caught...

Of course it's a lopsided punishment and still is wrong...they should of all got expelled or none of them.

but at least they said ANOTHER ingredient is toxic

[silent voice of seduction]

Originally posted by Midknight@Dec 23 2004, 06:58 AM
I cannot totally disagree with expelling someone for handing out drugs in a school.

OK, giving it to others can be seen as a bad thing. And the others were only suspended. If that's all the punishment they get, it's actually pretty fair.

[Eloivore]

Hey, at least they knew the relevant difference between DXM and CPM.

[the ashtar]

Originally posted by bwhite@Dec 23 2004, 11:13 AM
Hey, at least they knew the relevant difference between DXM and CPM.

LOL yeah I guess the media cant spread misinformation ALL of the time.

[vapor]

Originally posted by Midknight@Dec 23 2004, 06:58 AM
I cannot totally disagree with expelling someone for handing out drugs in a school.

It's part of the policy and people should respect that and accept the consequences if caught...

Of course it's a lopsided punishment and still is wrong...they should of all got expelled or none of them.

but at least they said ANOTHER ingredient is toxic

I agree. While alot of people can say im a idiot for being against people taking drugs at school, ill take a firm stand that im against it. When i went to highschool i took drugs and went to school, as I got older though, near my junior year i stopped. I occassionally would but I pretty much didnt. It was a waste to me, school is generally in my opinion a bad environment for drugs use. I would work hard at school, then right after school smoke budds or use opiates or whatever I had.

I would be even more careful when prepareing my home environment for dxm. This to me is a typical case of kids jsut wanting to get fucked up at school. Hopefully they will grow out of it. Dxm in my opinion is definatly not a drug to take at school, I perosnally ahve only dexed a handful of times at school, and a couple were nice, but not that great.

And I was also suprised they mentioned that the "other" (CPM) ingrediant was toxic in large doses.

Impressed me that they did enough research to mention that.

The medication, Coricidin Cough & Cold, contains an ingredient that can cause hallucinations, but another ingredient is toxic when taken in large amounts.

[Midknight]

Originally posted by Feldwebel Pfeffer+Dec 23 2004, 07:54 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Feldwebel Pfeffer @ Dec 23 2004, 07:54 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--Midknight@Dec 23 2004, 06:58 AM
I cannot totally disagree with expelling someone for handing out drugs in a school.

OK, giving it to others can be seen as a bad thing. And the others were only suspended. If that's all the punishment they get, it's actually pretty fair. [/b][/quote]

I have to say though, when it's a non illegal drug, they would have probably gone out and gotten it themselves. And most likely they planned it out.

There is the possibility that this was one of those... "yo man, take like 10 of these and youll be tripping out hard core man!" then the others being overly trusting and ignorant respond. "alright man, I hate being sober at school anyway.. munch munch munch"

But In my experience that doesn't happen to much

But I was just saying, handing out completely legal things is not illegal and should not warrent extra punishment.

But it's up to the school.

[PeoplesMind]

Originally posted by Midknight@Dec 23 2004, 05:58 AM
I cannot totally disagree with expelling someone for handing out drugs in a school.

It's part of the policy and people should respect that and accept the consequences if caught...

I can disagree, and I do (though not totally). Of course if you do the crime, expect to do the crime. But I disagree on the point that the use of drugs *should* be a crime. So I can not agree with punishment for what I beleive is not a crime.

-Nitin

[jersey_emt]

Originally posted by PeoplesMind+Dec 25 2004, 12:07 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (PeoplesMind @ Dec 25 2004, 12:07 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--Midknight@Dec 23 2004, 05:58 AM
I cannot totally disagree with expelling someone for handing out drugs in a school.

It's part of the policy and people should respect that and accept the consequences if caught...

I can disagree, and I do (though not totally). Of course if you do the crime, expect to do the crime. But I disagree on the point that the use of drugs *should* be a crime. So I can not agree with punishment for what I beleive is not a crime.

-Nitin [/b][/quote]
But what they did was not a crime. Every school has a zero-tolerance policy, and I agree with them. School is not the place to be taking recreational drugs of any kind.

IMO their punishment was fair, and actually quite lenient. All the students involved could have been expelled.