"In mid-January, staff at a Wisconsin high school conducted invasive searches of six female students, ordering them to strip down to their underwear. The searches were done because the administration suspected the students of concealing nicotine vaping devices."
"Subsequently, they have adopted extreme measures: The most prominent example, perhaps, occurred last summer, after police violently restrained teenagers for vaping on a Maryland boardwalk, where it wasn’t allowed. And high school nicotine testing regimens—with penalties from exclusion from extracurricular activities to expulsion—have in many places recreated the punitive approach of the drug war."
"“This appalling incident is a malign byproduct of a moral panic about vaping engineered by federal agencies, philanthropists and fanatical activists,” he continued. “They really need to calm this down and even recognize that for some young people vaping is a good thing, if it means they’re not smoking. It’s all gone way too far.”
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Outcry After High School Students Strip-Searched for Vapes
"Subsequently, they have adopted extreme measures: The most prominent example, perhaps, occurred last summer, after police violently restrained teenagers for vaping on a Maryland boardwalk, where it wasn’t allowed. And high school nicotine testing regimens—with penalties from exclusion from extracurricular activities to expulsion—have in many places recreated the punitive approach of the drug war."
"“This appalling incident is a malign byproduct of a moral panic about vaping engineered by federal agencies, philanthropists and fanatical activists,” he continued. “They really need to calm this down and even recognize that for some young people vaping is a good thing, if it means they’re not smoking. It’s all gone way too far.”
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Outcry After High School Students Strip-Searched for Vapes