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Sunday, March 20, 2011

Modern School: Misplaced Drug Hysteria

Modern School: Misplaced Drug Hysteria

Misplaced Drug Hysteria


Oxycontin to Be Snorted (Wikicommons)
The SF Chron ran an article Friday on UC Berkeley’s continuing problems with drug abuse at their co-ops. As a result of a series of overdoses and accusations of drug dealing, the University has implemented a Good Samaritan law that would allow students to call the authorities in the event of a drug overdose without risk of arrest (assuming they, too, were high or complicit). Many parents and neighbors are crying that this is insufficient,