We apparently have a cheese problem here in Dallas. Again, I get that drugs are bad; I just don't think they're "ravaging America."

And yet I still have no idea what crystal meth looks like. Or how you, you know, take it.

You snort it, like coke. Usually it's a white powder. Sometimes it's kinda' "moist." Sometimes it's pink.

How much drug use does there have to be before a school qualifies as "riddled"? My (private) HS was definitely more into alcohol, the (public) magnet school I almost went to was more about the pot and cocaine. (Note to schools - the DARE program? Mainly useful for letting kids know what drugs look like so they'll know exactly what to ask their dealers for. NSM with the keeping them away.)

We apparently have a cheese problem here in Dallas.

I take it that some slangy drug name and that the youth of Dallas aren't mainlining gruyere.

ION, Koolaid Pickles - I like pickles. . . but. . .

Good to know, tommyrot. I'll never put it into practice, except perhaps fictionally.

There was all sorts of stuff floating around the schools, but it wasn't really in your face or anything, so the community was probably in a fair amount of denial about what did go on. Well, except for the occasional gang fight.

I was surprised to learn, years later, that my childhood friend had been a pretty big dealer and, um, manufacturer? He very lucky because they used him to nail the ringleader, a chemistry grad student, but basically kept him off the books as long as he cleaned up his act (he met the student when he interned for the guy. Who knew those high school internship programs could be so lucrative?!)

I take it that some slangy drug name and that the youth of Dallas aren't mainlining gruyere.

Yep. [link]

I was going to link to an article, but I love seeing all those headlines. They make me laugh. "'Cheese' crisis runs deep "

ETA: Ok. This one's pretty good too "Local officials prepare for 'cheese' arrival"

I don't know of any drugs done at my high school. I wouldn't really know of many done outside my year, and inside my year there were maybe five girls who might have been into that stuff.

Our scandals were more like who was dating the Art teacher, and if it was right that a student could star in a film she wasn't old enough to see.

A few years before I attended my (private boarding) high school, some rich kids gathered cash, flew to Columbia, and tried to smuggle cocaine home in a hollow surf board. It made 60 Minutes. (And, oh look, someone is making a movie: [link] )

There were some pot smokers and assorted hallucinogen ingesters, and a few reputed coke heads, when I was there, but since getting caught with drugs got you kicked out, less than you'd think. I'm sure a lot of people smoked pot at home/in the summer, though. Rich kids with money and connections.