Would you report cocaine use at the Christmas party?

[Nevertime]

A member of staff was seen using and offered it to others too.

It's not something I do and I'd think it completely inappropriate. I wasn't there, but I'm not sure I'd have reported it.

It has been reported and staff member is suspended pending an investigation.

Would you have reported?

No I absolutely would not have.

@Wedding12000 Still report. It’s still illegal and still has the same problems with county lines, cartels etc regardless of who takes it. I’m not a teacher and if I saw someone at my workplace taking it I’d still report them as well.

The attitude well other things are also exploitative so why not is weird.

@Wedding12000 I’m guessing that would depend on the individual school’s policies and where the party was held but I can’t imagine they would be very happy about it. And obviously he’d be a massive twat for doing it!

Teachers do have a code of conduct to follow/abide to and drug use goes against this completely!

No, I’m not a narc

I think she means Nark as is in a grass/snitch/informer.

I wouldn’t report it but I’d have very limited sympathy if someone else reported it.

I’m amazed at all these people who say they wouldn’t report it. Can’t stand this walk on by society. I would absolutely report it as I would any breaking of the law. If not reported it could possibly have disasterous consequences eg cocaine being used by a young person who then gets addicted and messes up their life.

I agree. If I saw someone at the party nicking someone's purse I'd report it, so why would I not report any other illegal activity

" If I saw someone at the party nicking someone's purse I'd report it, so why would I not report any other illegal activity hmm"

The theft has a direct victim so is totally different.
I accept what pp are saying about the victims of the cocaine industry, but there is abuse in supply chains for all sorts of products. I don't report people who buy cheap clothes or 'blood' diamonds or have lithium in their laptops like most of us do.

Also, the claim that you report every law breaking must be a joke because if you went to the police every time a car driver didn't stop when they should, went over the speed limit or whatever you'd be done for wasting police time.
The police aren't interested even in small time drug dealers so why would they be interested in someone having enough drugs for their own use? And what would you gain by reporting it?

@Gwenhwyfar

" If I saw someone at the party nicking someone's purse I'd report it, so why would I not report any other illegal activity hmm"

The theft has a direct victim so is totally different.
I accept what pp are saying about the victims of the cocaine industry, but there is abuse in supply chains for all sorts of products. I don't report people who buy cheap clothes or 'blood' diamonds or have lithium in their laptops like most of us do.

Also, the claim that you report every law breaking must be a joke because if you went to the police every time a car driver didn't stop when they should, went over the speed limit or whatever you'd be done for wasting police time.
The police aren't interested even in small time drug dealers so why would they be interested in someone having enough drugs for their own use? And what would you gain by reporting it?

🥲 That is far more eloquent than I ever could have put it.

Never

Yes I absolutely would.

@Gwenhwyfar

" If I saw someone at the party nicking someone's purse I'd report it, so why would I not report any other illegal activity hmm"

The theft has a direct victim so is totally different.
I accept what pp are saying about the victims of the cocaine industry, but there is abuse in supply chains for all sorts of products. I don't report people who buy cheap clothes or 'blood' diamonds or have lithium in their laptops like most of us do.

Also, the claim that you report every law breaking must be a joke because if you went to the police every time a car driver didn't stop when they should, went over the speed limit or whatever you'd be done for wasting police time.
The police aren't interested even in small time drug dealers so why would they be interested in someone having enough drugs for their own use? And what would you gain by reporting it?

Rubbish.

There is abuse in supply chains but also consumer choice, increasing transparency, and regulation of labour markets, health and safety legislation to make sure ingredients are standardised and safe /hazardous substances are controlled and risky activities have appropriate safeguards. Human slavery is a crime. Trafficking is a crime.

The police do care about drug dealers abd they would not have you for wasting police time for reporting traffic crime. They may not have the resources to investigate, right enough.

@SportsMother

I accept what pp are saying about the victims of the cocaine industry, but there is abuse in supply chains for all sorts of products. I don't report people who buy cheap clothes or 'blood' diamonds or have lithium in their laptops like most of us do.

Cheap clothes aren’t illegal though. Honestly that’s just the Nutella Defence- Pathetic

I agree with you but...what is the Nutella Defence?

"The police do care about drug dealers "

People always know who the local drug dealers are and they are tolerated by the police, who are only interested in the big guns.

"Human slavery is a crime. Trafficking is a crime."

Yes, but those things can happen in legal industries too. That was my point.

Using cocaine is hardly the same as stealing directly from someone at a party in the sense of having a direct victim. A pick pocket has a direct victim, a drug user does not.

"Cheap clothes aren’t illegal though. "

I was talking about the moral argument. Yes, cocaine is illegal, nobody's disputing that, but you can dispute whether it's morally more wrong than other things and whether it's morally right to report a user.