UPDATE: Teens Finding Easy Access To Drugs
Report finds 40 percent of Redwood High School juniors have used marijuana within the past 30 days.
An alarming number of Redwood High School students have easy access to marijuana it seems. Corte Madera Vice Mayor Bob Ravasio reported during Tuesdsay night's Town Council meeting that a survey found 40 percent of juniors at Redwood have used marijuana within the past 30 days. "That is much higher than the state average. That is higher than the national average," Ravasio said of the findings from the 2009 California Healthy Kids survey. Police could not say for sure how the students are getting the drugs, but suggested they could be getting it from friends or relatives who are clients of the dispensaries. That news was revealed after the Town Council voted unanimously to extend for one year a moratorium against any new medical marijuana …
Derek Wilson
12:52 pm on Friday, November 4, 2011
Thanks to TCPD Chief Todd Cusimano and to Scott Candell for following up on this article to clarify the situation. more ›