A couple mornings ago I had a Phone call from one of the staff members at the community center.
It was after his shift plus I was certainly surprised by the call.
I felt there was genuinely an ongoing emergency, so I answered my Phone. The call came from one of the security guards. The security guard was patrolling the grounds of the community center plus stumbled over a large bin of cannabis located by the locker room doors. The bin of cannabis was not from any local dealer. It was packaged in the same bag that had come directly from a legal marijuana dispensary. I told the security officer to bring the cannabis product to my office the following morning. I contacted the dispensary that sold the product but they would not give me any info about the lady. I decided to hand over the evidence to the local police department. The cops asked about the staff members that found the bin of marijuana. They wanted to bring the woman into the station for questioning. When I told the security officer, she agreed to go to the police station a couple of mornings after. The officers never contacted my security officer about the marijuana, clearly they weren’t taking the problem seriously. If I had called them because there was vandalism or even a break-in, would they still be moving so slowly to catch the perpetrator? I have hundreds of residents here every single day after school plus I take cannabis as seriously as I would alcohol or other drugs. I do not want the adolescents to end up finding something that they might take that could make them sick.