College Is A Crack House

An American college has been threatened with being charged under Crack House laws.

Seriously.

A college in Oregon might face charges of being a crack house if they don’t get the drug abuse of their students under control, especially when it comes to the annual end of year “Fayre”.

They say the reason the government is reacting this way is that there is a lot of open drug use at  college festivals. Also, “two of the college’s 1,300 students have died of heroin overdoses in the past two years”, “drug pushers were stocking up in anticipation of this year’s Fayre”, “on the streets, the college’s annual hoopla has historically been a great place to get lit on any number of different substances”.

Drug pushers always target colleges and universities, that’s pretty common knowledge. University students have always experimented with drugs and festivals, such as the one they are talking about, are rife with drug abuse. I fail to see how this is a special situation.

Also, one death a year for two years? Yes, that’s sad, but I highly doubt it’s unusual at such a low rate.

The statute they have been threatened with ”carries a 20-year prison sentence and a $500,000 fine”.

This is absurd and I can’t see any reason why this college should be treated differently than any other. I think government needs to lay off and let them be.

Young people use drugs and they often experiment in university. I’m sure the college has procedures in place to deal with the students who have problems, and I’m sure they don’t actively encourage selling and doing drugs.

So unless the professors and deans are the ones who are actually selling the drugs, I think they should just let them be. Otherwise it’s a slippery slope to charging frat houses with prostitution. Isn’t it?