Posted on 02/11/2006 4:11:34 PM PST by Revel
The point I was making was your comment: "Use your head for something besides a hatrack, okay?" was very mean spirted. I tend not to read anything else when I see attitudes like that on this formally more civil site.
Trust me.
BTW, since you don't have a clue, you don't have a choice. Are you a paid up member of the NEA perhaps.
Cocaine is cut with lactose (milk sugar).
He was not charged for having cocaine. He was charged for claiming to have cocaine and presenting a look-alike substance.
I will agree with Old Student. I would not know the difference between cocaine, powdered sugar, corn starch, or baby powder by looking at the 4 different substances. You tell me that you would know the difference and I can't challenge your belief. I'll take your word for it. But in return you have to take mine that I would not know. I've never handled cocaine or been within 10 feet of it knowingly.
It's also not up to me to make that determination, nor is it the school's responsibility. No school has that type of testing equipment sitting around.
"They had the cops test the substance."
the substance? you mean test the sugar don't you?
I can tell lactose by taste. You "cow people" can't.
Just like the oregano vs pot scam. I've never seen pot, I have no idea if it looks like oregano or not. I've read that it does, but I don't know by my own experience.
Perhaps in another school in another state. But once he knew, his hands were tied.
Six months from now this kid is caught selling real drugs in school and it comes out that this "powdered sugar" incident happened and the principal did (basically) nothing, going against school policy and state law? Hell, you'd be calling for his head on a platter.
Would you risk a six-figure income and possibly your career instead of a lousy suspension for the student? Sure you would.
Why would they bother to test sugar? It's sugar.
They tested the unknown substance. The results of the tests indicated that the substance was not cocaine.
So, Confectioner's sugar is out? Catnip is out? Oregano is out? What about my grocer - it this a criminal organization?
Do that to an undercover cop and your a$$ belongs to the State of Illinois for a few years.
Exactly. Bizarre laws like that, the kind that regularly get cited in Reader's Digest funny fillers, are always concocted t cover some specific emergency, and enforced very selectively. the city of Phoenix has an ordinance against driving more than twice around a circular street in a three-hour period. It was designed to control teenage "cruising" at two specific shopping malls.
That's the whole point of this law - it's a 'get them on something' catchall. You're screwed if you lie, naturally, but you're equally screwed if you tell the truth.
We're sheep, willingly being led to slaughter.
"Think about it for a minute: Now that they KNOW it's just powdered sugar, why are they charging this little boy with a FELONY?
Obvious idiocy, indeed!"
Think about it yourself, for a minute. Or have you forgotten that the county prosecutor determines who will and will not be charged? The school administration does not control what charges are brought, the district attorney does that. They're likely thinking they can show the locals how tough they are on drugs...
So you are against charging a kid for possession of sugar? For or against? Which is it?
"I have a lot of experience with sugar, and I am also able to read. There is a significant difference between cocaine and sugar.
Trust me.
BTW, since you don't have a clue, you don't have a choice. Are you a paid up member of the NEA perhaps."
I've a lot of experience with sugar, but none with cocaine. I do know from reading, as do others who are posting here, that cocaine is often cut with sugar, among other things. (including comet cleanser, IIRC) And no, I'm not a member of NEA. You goofed in your post, and now you wish to deflect blame upon others? How very democratic of you. Why don't you just admit you didn't think things through before you posted? I expect we've all done that a time or two.
"I can tell lactose by taste. You "cow people" can't."
I can probably do so, as well, but I'm not foolish enough to taste-test suspected drugs. That is what police labs are for, after all. Not all the stuff cocaine is cut with is as benign as sugar, or even cleanser.
I would think the police in Aurora would have more serious matters on their mind then powder sugar. Aurora is full of thousands of illegal aliens and crime up the wazoo! Instead of dealing with the gangs in Aurora they arrest a 12 year old for possession of powder sugar.
"Trust me."
Oh, btw, I don't even trust me, why in ???? should I trust you? You've already shown me that you like to pontificate on subjects you obviously don't know as much about as you think you do
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