what lever of goverment is responsible for dealing with teen drug abuse?
105833
Local, county, state, and if it intersect a federal case the federal level
20905
Let me echo the previous answerer.  If what you describe is true, you have an addict and an emotionally unbalanced woman responsible for a child.  You should intervene any way you can.  Whatever agency where you live handles the welfare of children should be notified and an investigation begun.  If you have the resources, you may want to consult an attorney to see what action you may be able to take.
692142
I think the idea is to punish those who are dealing LARGE AMOUNTS (like those selling to the US) and to not punish those who use it for personal use. Actually Cocaine, Heroine, and Marajuana are all useful Medicinal drugs, and were commonly used as such until Nixon.
897998
there kids call the cops and tell them, they will get drug tested and if under 17 they go to juvenile detention so there! lol
162066
Only three things are going to work:\n1. Eliminate alcohol and tobacco. Ain't gonna happen.\n2. Constant monitoring of teenagers. Very expensive.\n3. Explain the consequences of smoking and drinking to them, without lying. This will not have a 100 percent effectiveness rate, because many teenagers feel they are old enough to make these decisions without the info.
892099
"humiliation of peeing in a cup"???? how's that humiliating? If you pass, you get so much more money than the druggies get from the government.\nIf the dopeheads are addicted, how will they stop without money to get themselves clean? In the current system, they dopeheads use some of the money to stay alive and some to buy drugs. This way, they'll still die, but they'll die more humanely than druggies without any money who have to resort to lots of crimes to survive.
807175
Govt. is very harsh on meth possesion b/c it is america's top drug right now. If he is a 1st offender hopefully he can get probation and rehab but otherwise it is a felony so they could give him a few weeks but nothing any harsher then that because its simple poss.
206099
if a kid or adult for that matter wants to drink or do drugs then they will find them what ever it takes.
425015
In order for it to be duress, there would have to be an explicit violent treat made or an illegal imprisonment or kidnapping.\n\nYou could argue, however, that the public school system holds a position of undue influence over a child's parents.  Because many families can not reasonably be expected to be able to afford private education or home-schooling, and because most area's truancy laws require children under the age of 16 to be receiving an education, the threat of expelsion could be a sufficient motivator to constitute undue influence, which would nulify any contract.\n\nHowever, convincing a jury that a child who tests posative for drug use should be allowed to continue to attend public schools would be a significant challenge.  I doubt that you would find an attorney that would want such a case unless there was some reason to believe that the child was singled out for reasons other than sufficient probable cause to believe that he/she was using drugs.\n\nIf there were a discrimination angle, or some kind of personal dislike for the student on the part of the official demanding the test, then you might have a case.  Otherwise, I doubt that it would go anywhere.
4074
Minor in Possession...the consequences differ from state to state.
1121361
It's a type of drug treatment program that, if successfully completed, can get the drug charges dismissed or lessened.
421894
Yes. The war on drugs is a failure. There are more prisons than schools and this has not solved the problem. My state Oklahoma spends $48000 on average per year for each inmate and $3000 on every student. The majority of these are non-violent drug offenders and need help not incarceration. Do we remember Prohibition? Violence increases when you make things illegal and let's face it you can get drugs as easy as you can cigarettes and liquor. Having said this IT MUST BE REGULATED. On the black market who knows what you're buying MUCH MORE DANGEROUS because it's cut with all sorts of bad stuff. Make cash from TAXES and let it help the problem. I do not condone drug use, but I do not believe the government should be able to regulate what goes into my body. Where does it end. Can't have dessert cause it causes obesity and heart problems? There will still be a drug problem as long as people take them, but making it illegal has made the problem worse despite all good intentions.
325699
It basically makes up organized crime these days, in the 20's it started with alcohol, then that was legalized so now its on to drugs.
251710
Thats it Control.\nThis is to fullfil need of the society. Like in the ancient kindoms in Europ when the people is to large to have sustenance he make some law to forbid s ex and the having only with the permission of the king (F ucking  U nder C onsentiment of the K ing) Remember that the catolic church is the right hand of the king and then have rules of conduct to crontol the people.\nIn modern times is much cheaper and "easy" to be moral than spend in a campaing that tell the youngs the effects of drugs,or to be carefull about AIDs or other deseases.\nThe rule saids Do not kill but not said "why".\nIn oriental ideologi because you must repect all living thing because all causes have an effect with the same intensity "but" in the inverse way.
149422
there shouldnt be a certain age. instead, people should be taught to think in a rational & realistic manner. this way, such things wont be glamorized & wind up playing into pop cultre as a forbidden fruit. stigma removed, minor indulgences may not be taken seriously leading to decriminalization. legal issues, as everyone (should by now) knows, lead to social paranoias and drain the judicials recources while padding pockets of preditor officials & politicians with the money & property siezed from those accused of aleged crimes. crimes committed while intoxicated are never fault of illicit substances, merely a scapegoat for the irresponsible thus fukn up my rights to pursue alternative recreaton.
977904
No it's probably time for a rational review of drug laws. But don't count on our politicians to propose changes. They can't be seen as "soft on crime". Better to build more jails and get reelected than to solve our society's problems.
811897
The current drug laws really don't make sense and your idea has merit. There are always going to be drug users. Decrimiinalization will not make more drug users. It will reduce petty crime and strike a serious blow to organized crime.\n\nUnfortunately, it would also make tens of thousands of government employees useless. They would have nothing to do and their bosses would lose their little empires. We can't have that, now can we? After all, it's only taxpayer funds they are wasting on a lost cause.