Saw a friend's 13yr old dealing weed, what to do? Nothing, I guess?

[SolitudeAtAltitude]

Am I just a silly pearl clutcher? Bit unsure. I need advice.

Saw a friend (acquaintance) son (13, yr 9) in the local city park today, lots of teens were hanging around in groups. Lots of little groups passing around (what looked like) a spliff. Some kids lolling about, one girl lying face down in the mud, crying. I went up to her and asked if she was ok but her friends scooted over and pulled her away.

So this kid I know was going around with a little cross body bag, making some kind of transaction, after which the little group would light a (what looked like a) spliff. Could they just be pretending?

It was like a cbbc version of the Wire Or do they just pretend at this age? 13 seems so young.

I know this kid's mum, but not very well. He's at my DS school.

Just wondering if I should do anything? I was a bit shocked as all these kids are only 13-14

Was thinking of telling the school, but it's not a school issue, is it?

Worried about this kid and who supplied him, what sort of people he's dealing with. He's from a very smart MC family...

Sort of stumped.

Anyone got any experience of this kind of thing? Also saw a friends' daughter smoking weed and acting very spaced out (lolling about, crying, falling about, she looked all over the place, weirdly she did not recognise me when I walked by) she's 14.

My instinct tells me not to tell the parents as they would hate me. And they might even accuse me of lying or not believe me.

Right? is this just normal teen stuff now?

I realise I had contact local police and council about issues in the park last year (anti social behaviour), so found the e-mail addresses for local police and council persons, so have written to them.

They very much want to work with local communities and last year stepped in when there were issues with youths drinking, littering and vandalising.

Will contact the school as well.

I asked the girl who was face down if she was ok and if she needed me to look after her but she was whisked away by shrieking friends who told me to leave her alone. Did not see her after that.

School have a zero tolerance policy on drugs.
If caught with it, expelled? Maybe give the mum a chance to at least try to stop that from happening.
I'd be grateful of the chance.

Glad you are contacting school.
There may be other things going on in this child's life and this is part of a bigger picture. Even if not, if they are dealing out of school, they will be dealing in school and other pupils are likely to be involved.

Have you googled "County Lines" yet?

Glad you are contacting school.
There may be other things going on in this child's life and this is part of a bigger picture. Even if not, if they are dealing out of school, they will be dealing in school and other pupils are likely to be involved.

Have you googled "County Lines" yet?

@solitudeataltitude has the school acknowledged your email - do you know at all?

It might've just been rolled up fags. Still right to say something either way.

Btw 90% of the people I knew who smoked pot, when they were teenagers, were very middle class. It was just that no-one noticed it turned a blind eye and the other 10% were the ones who got into trouble for it. Often the working class kids were blamed for being a bad influence on the middle class kids and getting them into drugs when in reality it was the other way round.

Hopefully classism isn't quite a rife now but still.