Peanutbutter can kill people. That doesn’t mean peanut butter is inherently unsafe.
Personally I don’t want the stank of pot around me, and I can understand that you have even more reason to find it disagreeable. But that doesn’t refute the fact that marijuana has an incredibly low acute toxicity And almost no, if any, acute overdoses causing death.
My freshman english teacher demonstrated for the class how GI’s smoked weed in ‘Nam (sans weed and rifle)
He was definitely everyone’s favorite English teacher. He was also later fired for making threats against G-Dub in his school email account or something to that effect.
When I was in high school, I also would have thought that that was the coolest thing ever.
As someone who has no kids but is easily old enough to have kids in high school, I’m a little squicked out. I mean, it’s not like he actually offered the pot to the kids, but he’s still a dumbass for thinking this was even remotely a good idea.
People who are saying this isn’t an unsafe environment: A teacher is responsible for the safety and well-being of their students during class. If you can’t see that the teacher being under the influence of a mind altering substance during class is inherently unsafe for the students, I don’t know what to say.
Right? Also, we can easily be pro-legalization and pro-pot, and not want that in schools. If he’d just talked about the issue in class that would be one thing. That’s not what he did. Clearly dude was trying to be the edgy, cool teacher here, not give the students any sort of valuable educational lesson.
Hell, I’m for the decriminalization of all drugs even though I don’t use any of them. Unfortunately, I’m one of those people pot makes anxious and paranoid but I realize for most people it’s pretty harmless. It affects judgement, though, so it’s unsafe for a teacher to use.