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9
Year-Old
Busted
on
Candy
Rap
9/28/97
In yet another example of zero-tolerance to the point of absurdity,
a nine year-old Virginia boy was suspended from school for giving two pill-shaped
Certs candies to a classmate. According to the parents of the classmate,
little Joey Hoeffer told their son that the candies would "make him
jump higher." When the friend, who apparently did not consume the
mints, told his parents what Joey had told him, they immediately suspected
that their son had been given some kind of drug.
The one-day suspension was for violation of the school's drug policy
which forbids "possession or distribution (or attempted distribution)
of drugs, illegal substances, controlled substances, or 'look-alikes' which
by dosage, unit, appearance or by representation would lead a person to
believe that the substance is a controlled or illegal substance."
During his ordeal, little Joey was interviewed by the school's principle,
Gloria Jackson, and by a Manassas police officer, who confiscated the mint
for analysis.
(The summer '96 issue of the Drug Policy Letter featured similar incidents
in its cover story, "The War on our Children", online at http://www.dpf.org/dpletter/30/.
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Issue #13, 9/28/97
Campaign '97 Update | 9 Year-Old Busted on Candy Rap | Another French Official Speaks Out for Legalization of Cannabis | Mexican Priest Praises Drug Traffickers' Benevolence... Journalists Attacked by Archbishop's Aides for Asking Questions about the Incident | Baltimore Health Commissioner Testifies on Needle Exchange | Spy vs. Spy | Cia Turns 50 | Freudian Slip | Mexican Journalists Terrorized | Former Pakistani Prime Minister's Accounts Alleged to Contain "Drug Money" | Swiss Voters Overwhelmingly Approve Heroin Maintenance and Other Liberal Drug Policies | Dutch Heroin Maintenance to go Ahead as "Pilot Project" | Canada's Medical Marijuana Prohibition Challenged by Multiple Sclerosis Patient | Reformers Charge Washington State Government with Using Federal Funds to Politic Against Drug Reform Initiative | Black Market Meth Labs Kill One Child, Force Evacuation of 30 Families | Shalala Continues to be Dogged by Needle Exchange Questions | Editorial: World Gone Mad
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