dude. do u need a bag?

OK...so, this principal confiscates a kid's cell phone...uses it to call one of his buddies ...and entraps him in a drug deal?!

This from the Boston Globe:

Principal lured drug suspect to arrest

CONCORD, N.H.—A Concord High student is fighting a suspension after being lured to an alleged drug deal by the principal of another school who was posing as the student's friend through text messages.

Police say Brady High School Principal Jean Barker arranged the alleged drug deal with 17-year-old John Huckins through text messages on a cell phone she had confiscated from one of Huckins' friends.

Police reports say Huckins began the exchange of text messages by asking his friend if he needed a bag. Barker suspected that meant marijuana, said yes, arranged for the student to come to Brady and called police.

Huckins is charged with possession of a controlled drug with intent to distribute. He was suspended from Concord High for 10 days after his arrest last month. But Concord school officials are also trying to suspend him for the rest of the year because they allege Huckins began the drug transaction on his cell phone while on Concord High property.

Barker is defending her decision to pose as a student to set up an alleged drug buy, saying Huckins' alleged willingness to bring drugs to Brady put her school at risk....

Study: Prescription drugs a problem on campus

A recent story described how school administrators intervened to stop prescription drugs from home from being sold in a local middle school. Now comes a study reported by CNN.com and USA Today that finds problems on college campuses.

The study finds:

• About half of U.S. college students binge drink or abuse drugs, study finds
• Proportion of students who abuse prescription painkillers is up sharply
• "What's troubling" is tremendous increase in intensity of drinking, drug use

The study, issued by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University in New York, provides a detailed look at substance abuse among America's college students based on surveys, interviews and other research.

"I think we have, by almost any standard, a serious public health problem on the college campuses. And it's deteriorating," Joseph Califano, who heads the center and served as U.S. health secretary from 1977 to 1979, said in a telephone interview.

The report found that 49 percent of full-time college students ages 18 to 22 binge drink (consuming five or more drinks at a time), or abuse prescription drugs such as painkillers or illegal drugs like cocaine and marijuana. That translates to 3.8 million students.

In 2005, 23 percent of them met the medical criteria for substance abuse or dependence, it said.