Police brought son home

[Purplehydra]

Feel ill
he was terrified
they got stopped cos they all ran off cos someone let off a firework. It wasn’t him or his friends.
got searched and they found weed. That they had bought the night before for the very first time.
thet handcuffed him
they were very nice
he’s 17
wtf?!!
he’s a really good kid, they just wanted to try it.
hes autistic and has adhd, not sure that’s relevant here

Also … many with ADHD, really end up liking weed too much, more than typical people. It’s one of the things experts describe - some ADHD people can feel get focus and energy from weed. Whilst most others are chill/sleepy/relaxed.
So, it can be more likely ADHD person ends up smoking too much ..,, like more than recreationally. … and impacting life negatively.
interacts badly with medications and of course, similar bad shit in body & lungs like tobacco unfiltered

https://www.additudemag.com/cannabis-use-disorder-marijuana-adhd/amp/

chadd.org/attention-article/adhd-recreational-marijuana/

I don't need to, I was giving a very brief overview. I'm very aware of how kids are recruited, but this 17 year old is very unlikely to be coerced into it. He's intelligent, has a good relationship with his mum, his phone is tracked. And he recieves pocket money. Everyone has piled on, thinking the worst of this kid and his mum.

Sorry missed your response. You are absolutely right, it is expressly on the information handed out to both SS and local police Constabularies. Sorry my post seemed to negate it, I was trying to say that in this precise case I see nothing that would make me believe that this child is involved in cl. I'm not dismissive of vulnerable teenagers.

That's so sad, sorry for your loss.

If he is genuinely sorry and telling you he won't do drugs again you could suggest that you want him to take drugs tests until you build up your trust in him. They are very cheap and easy to use. You can get them an Amazon. If he is saying he won't use drugs then he won't mind.

@Secradonugh

jow many years ago? And where?

there's no such thing as local
policing here now. There used to be a station in the village (10 min walk) now the nearest one is 100 miles away 🙇🏻‍♀️. We used to have beat bobbies. We don't have any now. It's why the kids are so fucking ferral because they know there are no consequences.

I'd got 2 cautions for under age drinking at 16 & 17, didn't stop me working for the Civil Service.

Oh perhaps I'm blessed. My town police station is 3 miles away. I know they had closed many rural ones. I assumed that's all they had done everywhere. 100 miles is ridiculous. It will eventually make vigilantes of normal folks.

Yep it is utterly ridiculous! I'm not even really 'rural' as such.

yeah lots of anti social behaviour starting (adults) and there has been a lot of kids hurting/killing wildlife etc people not wanting to deal with them as there's no police back up and the 'kids' carrying knives and not bothered about using them! It is still considered a nice area.

“Difficult” WTF? They are used by a massive number of people who have invisible condition, including people with MS who can’t stand or walk for a long time for example. How are they difficult in wanting to indicate they find some things hard without having to explain to people all the bloody time.

They’re also used by people who have no business using them, because they’re so easy to obtain.

I think they key words in what uou have posted are May and Can. In other words it's an option but not always the outcome.

In my experience, people I know with genuine invisible disabilities don't use them because they're largely useless, and the percentage of genuine people using them compared with attention seekers and scammers is small.

How would you know someone using one falsely, Any approx % false users? One or two benefits-cheat types? Or thousands?
what’s the scam other than “no covid mask”?

Queue jumping, for one.

hadn’t occurred to me that lack of “beat bobbies” and “village” police stations & police “consequences” was cause of ferral kids.
I had always thought kids were feral due to parenting or lack of parenting. Had no idea parents were expecting village police & beat bobbies to keep their kids at home and behaving.

I’ve never ever seen someone using the lanyard jump the queues.
You're making things up here.

How do you know they’re making things up?

Like the radar keys?
Are you also planning to tell someone using one that because they’re so easy to get, they clearly don’t need the disabled loos maybe?

Why is it clearly not the first time? There has to have been a first time.

🤣🤣

It's worrying that everyone wants to believe the worst of the OP's son.

Round my way a group of yp went to a gig and one of them bought the drugs they wanted and handed them out. Then one of the girls had a bad reaction and died and the boy who had bought the drugs was now in the most awful trouble. www.surreycomet.co.uk/news/15082424.new-malden-teenager-who-supplied-mdma-to-17-year-old-who-died-after-taking-drugs-at-the-o2-arena-avoids-jail/

Is that a reason to think “steer clear I’m difficult” every time you see one? I suspect it’s a very small minority that use them needlessly.