Drug Tests On Sale At Placer County High Schools

January 18, 2011 11:20 PM

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PLACERVILLE, Calif. (CBS13) – Parents of Placer County students can now buy discounted drug tests from high schools, a tactic that county officials hope will help cut down on what appears to be a rising drug use rate.

The inventive anti-drug campaign comes on the heels of a recent survey from a Placer County high school that found “half of the students” use marijuana.

The Placer County Sheriff’s Department is making the $40 drug tests available for just $10 for parents in response to concerns over drugs in schools. The 10-panel urine test checks for methamphetamines, cocaine, marijuana, ecstasy and other drugs, officials said.

A simple $2 test to check for alcohol is also available, said Deputy Laurie Bettencourt.

Parents can buy the tests on campus from the school’s resource officers or at the sheriff’s offices.

Drug Tests On Sale At Placer County High Schools

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bob gold

I know for a fact that 5 of MY teachers in THIS School sell pot to students… Prove me wrong, need proof?
Amy

I think I’ll drop dime on them. I’m so sick of their anti American attitudes. What about my future? They are the ones who are trying to destroy it for us by letting my felow students get away without question. Please somone help us. I’m serious.

males Macfarland

Amy, challenge a teacher to show The American Trinity – five minute YouTube vid by a Dennis Prager in class maybe. They probably won’t let you, or get upset somehow…but I thought it was brilliant and simple way to show how and why America really is exceptional, etc.
cheers,
JP
“The bigger the government the smaller the citizen”
Dennis Prager
Over Thair

No two of us are wholly alike, either physically, mentally, or emotionally; or, consequently, in our physical, mental, or emotional requirements for the acquisition of happiness, and the avoidance of unhappiness. No one of us, therefore, can learn this indispensable lesson of happiness and unhappiness, of virtue and vice, for another. Each must learn it for himself. To learn it, he must be at liberty to try all experiments that commend themselves to his judgment. Some of his experiments succeed, and, because they succeed, are called virtues; others fail, and, because they fail, are called vices. He gathers wisdom as much from his failures as from his successes; from his so-called vices, as from his so-called virtues. Both are necessary to his acquisition of that knowledge — of his own nature, and of the world around him, and of their adaptations or non-adaptations to each other — which shall show him how happiness is acquired, and pain avoided. And, unless he can be permitted to try these experiments to his own satisfaction, he is restrained from the acquisition of knowledge, and, consequently, from pursuing the great purpose and duty of his life. Cultivate your future to the fullest Amy, and let everyone else worry about theirs.

Richard s

Its disgusting how our countrys leader bows to a leader of a dictatrship. They should teach kids in PLACER that it is rong next to how bad pot is. This school is ANTI-AMERICAN.

Bob by D

Marijuana is the safest drug on the planet. It has been used in medicine for over 5000 years. Visit Google and type in RUN FROM THE CURE. Watch the full video and you’ll learn why the govt.doesn’t want anyone to have this harmless herb.

Foxy Doc

Yes, it is widely used, but it is also frequently a “gateway” drug. In many cases it leads to cocaine and opiate use. I’ve seen this first hand as a parent of three (all of whom were great students and wonderful kids) and as a teacher/college prof in far too many students. Many of those wonderful, intelligent. promising kids are now DEAD! Grow up… and learn the FACTS concerning weed use..
Jimmie

Foxy Doc,
The gateway effect is due to marijuana being forced on the black market where drug dealers sell many other harmful drugs. Pot users are exposed to these types of people and substances due to prohibiton, not an effect of marijuana. Why don’t you learn the FACTS.
Dan in Mary-land

Jimmie,

This is totally not true. The same problem did not happen during the prohibition of alcohol. Marijuana is classified as a catch-all. It is a stimulant, depressant, and hallucinogenic drug all in one. It leads to other drugs because they, too, give an incredible ‘high’ sensation. Been there, done that. I knew 3 people who went further and I’ve buried all 3 of them for it.
Milo

A number of studies have shown an association between chronic marijuana use and increased rates of anxiety, depression, and schizophrenia. High doses of marijuana can produce an acute psychotic reaction,

John

rong?

Long Duck

Bong

SonofaB

They should teach kids in PLACER how to spell.
john

Why is pot bad?
Overthair

Anyway…

Harry

1/2 the student body…2/3 of the faculty are potheads
ImaHippyBurning

California is doomed for all time! Get out while you still can.

Abhi

Yes it is. But, Placer County is a Republican stronghold.

Dan in Mary-land

A California Republican is a Democrat in any conservative state.

Doc_F

And the cops, teachers, drug test makers and parents all drink BOOZE.

What the hell is the difference? Oh I know….

Nothing!

Hypocrites…

Ya Ok

Oh i know….booze is legal, and there old enough drink.

rwcx

You can drink booze also when you are old enough. Doc-F

http://profbacchus.wordpress.com profbacchus

…and that is sooooo much safer than pot. Not.

Milo

A number of studies have shown an association between chronic marijuana use and increased rates of anxiety, depression, and schizophrenia. High doses of marijuana can produce an acute psychotic reaction, Google it.
Will

Milo, chronic alcohol use can be just as bad. It’s called alcoholism.
Wmbg

@milo
This isn’t true. In fact, marijuana has been linked to CURING or at least decreasing the symptoms of anxiety, depression, and schizophrenia along with a plethora of other inflictions.

Also, studies have show an association between chronic alcohol use and increased rates of anxiety, depression, and liver disease. High doses of alcohol will kill you.

Steve

Placerville or Placer County? They’re not the same.

Dan in Mary-land

True, Placerville isn’t even in Placer County.

Impressive the folks in Sacramento don’t even know their own cities and counties.

Dave W

Boy ain’t that the truth.

Chris G.

Why not give this issue back to the States & see how it works out? Californian can be liberal as they want to be & Utah or Alabama can be as prohinitive as The People choose to be.

I would say that being somewhere in between these 2 extremes will eventually win out.

petie3

So I’m moving to Kansas and growing my own; I think not.
Phil

Why does one way have to win out? How about 50 states all doing things a little differently, spanning a spectrum from kooky liberal to ultra conservative? Then, we will all have a place where we can go to be comfortable.

Wil

i dont think the pot vs alcohol is relevant here. we are talking about high school students, not adults.
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Jeff

No more yankie my wankie. The Donger need food.
Andre

CBS 13 missed the boat on this article. The tests are paid for by the Placer County Deputy Sheriff’s’ Association; not the Sheriff’s Office. No public funds were used to pay for these kits. The deputies paid for them out of their own pocket because they believe it’s important.

The program is strictly a tool for the parents and there is NO follow-up by law enforcement regarding the results of the tests.
m

I will pay for 435 test for congress before they vote on their first pork bill! Of course all Kennedy’s would be exempt.
Luke

There is nothing wrong with smoking marijuana.

Todd

There is nothing wrong with smoking marijuana, except:
a) all smoke is bad for your lungs
b) your eyes get all red and droopy
c) you become anti social to anyone who promotes sobriety
d) your selfishness results in others nearby getting a contact high, you cannot confine the drug entirely to yourself, it is in the smoke, which wafts everywhere
e) the drug doesn’t leave your body fast enough in the morning, so driving ro work is a challenge, and if your work is driving, you are a risk to other drivers
f) you become delusionally outraged over the comparison between alvohol use and matijuana use. So tell me, whats the marijuana equivalent of a weak wine glass consumed over the course or a 1 hour dinner? 2 hits of fresh columbian?
g) marijuana users are far more interested in the high than alcohol users. Alcohol users are usually with others in a social setting, marijuana users often smoke alone and crave the mellow haze of being stoned

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D

Placerville is not in Placer County
Wts43

The same arguemennt that pot is a gateway drug applies even more for alchohol. You say that some hardcore drug users used pot first. well im willing to bet almost all of them started with a drink of legal alchohol first.
AD

Wait five years and then talk to the kids that smoke it for those 5 yrs and you will know. You can ask yourself then are they smarter or dumber? Has it gotten them farther in their life or are they still in the same place?
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Joan Cook

As usual, the newspaper got it wrong! Placerville is NOT in Placer County. Placerville is in El Dorado County.
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