Marijuana Policy Project

As a former Concord resident reading about the high school student facing felony counts, I have to believe most reasonable people of New Hampshire's capital city are also truly baffled by what has unfolded.

A school principal in possession of one her student's cell phones encourages a person she has randomly selected from its call list to come to her school to give her some marijuana.

The selected individual protests to meeting on school grounds (demonstrating more good sense than the principal) and suggests, despite the administrator's continued urgings, to meet near his home instead. Add to this that he had a very minimal amount of marijuana and that, not so long ago, this 17-year-old, with no prior record, would have been considered a minor.

Am I missing something?

The principal, whose job it is to keep her students safe, is encouraging the presence of drugs on school grounds. The principal, whose job it is to advocate for the bright promise of students' futures, has randomly selected a student's future to ruin, a student who is now, literally, days away from graduating and attending college.

Shouldn't someone be questioning whether this principal is fit to serve, as well as asking why local law enforcement chose to participate in an endeavor that reflected such poor judgment?

Jen Tucker, Topsham, Maine