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Their kids died after buying drugs on Snapchat. Now the parents are suing (www.theguardian.com)
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Their kids died after buying drugs on Snapchat. Now the parents are suing::Suit claims app features like disappearing messages and geolocating users make kids easy targets for dealers

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[–] TurnItOff_OnAgain 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I work in K12. The amount of kids who are trying drugs at a younger age is massively higher than when I was in high school 20 years ago.

[–] BURN 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep. It’s crazy and not in a good way. 20 years ago the edgy kids smoked pot and not much worse. Now there’s kids literally doing cocaine in bathrooms of high schools. Pot is not only normalized, it’s almost encouraged among teenagers now.

I’m a pothead to an extreme degree and I keep telling kids to not be like me.

[–] isles 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I had kids doing cocaine in our high school bathrooms 25 years ago, which is why anecdotes are unreliable for sense-making.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Exactly, the 1980s existed and some of us were alive then. I was too young to see coke in high school as I started in 1989 but older siblings absolutely did.

[–] BURN 2 points 1 year ago

Fair, and I’m not saying that it didn’t happen, but I’d bet it was less people than are doing it now. What we can all probably agree on is that high schoolers doing coke is bad and we’d like that number to trend down, not up.