SnozzleBerry wrote:Here's a link to a relatively great article (from the student paper no less), correcting many of the contradictions and false reports from yesterday. It corroborates that it was the sale of k2 that brought police to the dorm and gives other details that were fuzzy, omitted, or wrong.
Wow, thanks for that link! From it..
"According to The Washington Post, a campus police officer thought he saw a student smoking marijuana outside of Harbin Hall early Saturday. The substance was actually "K2," a legal "synthetic marijauna" made of green leaves sprayed with chemicals.
The K2 smoker led the officer to his source in room 926. Authorities got a warrant to search the room, where they say they found the chemicals to make DMT and five small pill capsules containing suspected DMT."
So.. They saw someone smoking a (currently) legal substance, and somehow procured a warrant from that? Uh-huh... Ok.
"ut freshman Charles Smith and campus-visitor John Perronee were arrested and charged with conspiracy to manufacture and possession with intent to distribute DMT.
The three students said that "Charlie" doesn't fit the stereotype of a drug-dealer. Student 1 describes Charles Smith as a bookworm with the appearance of a "fourteen-year-old."
"I have a class with him. He's a really smart kid. He's the type of kid who would come to class 10 minutes early and be the only one participating."
Student No. 3 said that Charlie is "the sweetest guy you'll ever meet.""
That sure would have been nice to read in the original article, before they automatically demonize the poor kid. (Yeah it was definitely stupid to extract in the dorm though.)
Also, why am I not surprised that the kid was described as very nice and intelligent? Umm.. Maybe because he's interested in DMT and not just trying to get fucked up.. DMT obviously draws a different crowd than your usual recreational drugs.
And that article also comments on two other things that angered me.. First, one student is quoted saying that the police woke him/her up saying something like "Your life is in danger, you have to evacuate." And that was it... Wow, ok.
Also, the university chaplains/jesuits were apparently nowhere to be found afterwards to help council these students who just had such a rude and scary awakening..
This article is much more informative than the original, thanks again for that link!
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