Laura Custodio, San Fernando Valley School Dean, Could Cost District $1 Million For Amateur Drug Sting

The Los Angeles Times:

Laura Custodio, dean of Porter Middle School in the San Fernando Valley, sprang into action after hearing that an eighth-grader was selling pot to other students.

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Comments

[thinkingwomanmillstone]

12:21 PM on 10/12/2011

I would bet she was trying to improve that principal or vice principal track she was on. Since you have to get parental permission to participate in anything at school from a field trip to extra curricular activities, there is no way this 'dean' didn't know she was out of line to use this boy and not at least talk to his parents first. She's watching way too many law and order reruns.

[El Chingaso]

09:22 AM on 10/12/2011

Another boneheaded move by a public school administrator that ends up costing taxpayers -- big time.

[smp276dp]

03:42 PM on 10/11/2011

It will make the world a better place. If everyone puffed a joint. No one would ever be upset about anything. And if they are not high they are hungry. That is a winning combination.

[chesscub]

01:27 PM on 10/11/2011

I guess she (putting on sunglasses) failed to weed out crime.

[fumes]

05:06 PM on 10/10/2011

how embarrassing!

the students know more than the teachers..

about this ancient and beneficial plant.

[fumes]

04:18 PM on 10/10/2011

too funny!

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"I was concerned for the safety of the students," Custodio said in testimony.

But Alexander Calfo, an attorney for the student's family, said the sting was a stunning lapse of judgment that put a 12-year-old boy in jeopardy.

The administrators "made horrible, horrible reckless mistakes," he said.
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all this over a plant KNOWN TO BE BENEFICIAL:

The Lesson of Sativex
By Rob Kampia, AlterNet
Posted on April 19, 2005, Printed on October 9, 2011
http://www.alternet.org/story/21818/the_lesson_of_sativex

On April 19, the Canadian government delivered what should be the final blow to the U.S. government's irrational prohibition against the medical use of marijuana. It approved prescription sale of a natural marijuana extract -- for all practical purposes, liquid marijuana -- to treat pain and other symptoms caused by multiple sclerosis.

Sativex, produced by GW Pharmaceuticals in Britain, brings the medical marijuana debate full circle. Though the technology has advanced in 70 years, this product is a direct descendent of the marijuana extracts and tinctures that were a standard part of the medical armamentarium until the late 1930s -- universally recognized as being safe and effective for certain conditions. These products were taken away from patients and doctors as a result of the prohibition on marijuana that began in 1937, despite the public opposition of the American Medical Association.

http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/21818