A couple of days ago I received a phone call from one of the staff members at the community center.
It was after hours and I was very surprised by the call.
I felt there was probably an emergency, so I answered my work phone. The call came from one of the security officers. The security officer was patrolling the grounds of the community center and stumbled across a bag of cannabis located by the locker room doors. The bag of cannabis was not from a local dealer. It was packaged in the same container that had come directly from a marijuana dispensary. I told the security officer to bring the cannabis product to my office the next morning. I contacted the dispensary that sold the product but they would not give me any information about the person. I decided to hand over the evidence to the local police department. The police department asked about the staff members that found the bag of marijuana. They wanted to bring the guy in for questioning. When I told the security officer, he agreed to go to the police station a couple of days later. The officers never contacted my security officer about the marijuana. Clearly they aren’t taking the problem seriously. If I had called them because there was vandalism or a break-in, would they still be moving so slowly to catch the perpetrator? I have hundreds of students here every single day after school and I take cannabis as seriously as I would alcohol or any other drug. I don’t want the kids to end up finding something that they might take that will make them sick.