cheese, these damn kids need a butt whipping.

This isn't a children's issue. This is a parenting problem. The parenting efforts in this country seem to get a little less each year. Parenting is hard work. Parents need to say no to TV, internet, and societal pressures. Go get a book, play a board game and show you're kids you care. Then the drug problem and other problems will diminish over time. Kids don't need to watch TV and hang out with older kids. They have their whole life to be an adult.

they start with brie or a triple cream, then move on to the hard stuff, like pecorino and parmesan.

Typical for a country who cares more about the people outside its borders than the ones struggling in it. Parents dont blame anyone but yourself.

Its Afgan heroin; we won't burn the opium.

This is a problem, however, substance abuse has been shown among children as young as nine for generations.

Again with the drugs coming from Mexico. And Sutton let the smuggler go and prosecuted the border patrol agents Campeon and Ramos......Incredible.

While it's definitely a parenting issue, it's also just one more reason to get your kids out of the cesspools that are public schools. Unless you also have this stuff at home, and then, well, you and they are screwed.

As a parent of a 4th grader in the state of Texas, I think this is a serious issue. Fortunately, I am a parent that educates her child about drugs and you better believe I will be showing my daughter this article. Anybody that makes jokes about this situation either has no kids or is just ignorant.

What a surprise!
Dallas now has become as bad as south central LA.
When a large percentage of the population becomes illegals and other lowlifes, what do you expect?
Yes it is a parenting problem, just like low test scores, drugs, and crime in the schools; it stems from people with a lack of any moral values.
As long as we have our southern border open to all takers, the drugs and the scumbags will make life worse here. The Gov won't stop it, sothose of us that are fed up have to rise up and do something about it.

This is just another symptom of our souless, hedonistic and empty society that we are passing on to our children. American culture is obessessed with self! "It's all about me", "If it feels good do it" "It's okay if I'm not hurting anyone." We're reaping exactly what we've been sowing. This country had better start agreeing on what good character is, what is right and wrong, that life is sacred, that there are moral absolutes! If we (parents) lead, they (children) will follow. After all, children are only imitators of what they see in us!

I really hope the school cafateria doesn't ban cheese as a result of this. Just wait it will happen.

And naturally, we refuse to stop the problem down there on the border too. We could build a wall for starteres, but no. We could start sending people back, but no.

We could stop the drug dealers from sending drugs up here, but we just sent two border agents to prision for doing just that!!

Who cares about this problem. Certainly not our imperial government.

It never amazes me anymore what new stuff comes up illegally!
I know nothing of the local area but I'm sure someone will be nice enough to drive this crap to NJ!

so... what happened to the cub scouts, the boy scouts the girl scouts, the boys club, the ymca, after school sports, community centers????????? aren't there some people out there that want to teach these kids something other than how to get high??? - what can be so f....d up at 11 yrs old to want so desperately to get high? granted, they are fed gmo food and programmed with video games and television - this is way beyond just the parents – these are the kids that will no doubt end up within the most well funded social program in the US - the "prison industrial complex" – its like their being fattened for the kill

Curiosity and self preservation is the reason man still lives on this earth. Put the drug dealers out of biz by cutting off their funding. Educate,Educate,Educate.

The blame game doesn't work!!!

im so tired of people complaining about bad parenting when parents /arent/ raising their children anymore. not at all. they let the state raise their children 192+ days a year, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. and when the state isnt raising them, mtv is. i decided a long time ago how i could solve this problem (for myself anyway), quit sex, and have no worries about having children. if everyone did the same thing for 50 years, the problem would work itself out.

Geez, it seems that the drug market has had some of the most innovation in the US economy. Perhaps the government should criminalize automobiles...

As a parent, I am saddened that such young children can be targets for drug dealers. Knowing that this is out there is our (parents) best defense, so we can educate our children about these dangers.

From personal experience and personal observations I can tell you that 9-11 year olds who are doing drugs are trying to self-medicate for some issues that they feel they cannot cope with on their own. I hope the parents are paying more attention to their kids. People, please pay more attention to your children (and yourselves in some cases). If you don't know the signs, please search the internet. There is a lot of help out there. Ask another parent or something. There would be no drugs if there was no market for them. And it is those of us who need to "escape" who are creating the market. Law enforcement cannot stop every drug shipment, I don't care how much fencing you put up. Emotionally and mentally healthy people don't need to use drugs. Now, how we help all of those who feel the need, that is the real question.

I agree that parents need to be more involved in their childrens lives however, mine were and I still got my hands on drugs. This is not just a parental issue. It's a nation issue that needs all the help it can get. This country doesn't seem to take notice of the children or elderly anymore and this is the result. Havoc!

I used to live in this area. I remember when it first hit the streets. They took all the tylenol pm's off the ready shelves and placed them behind the counter. It is a shame that people can't even live these days without having to worry about the CHILDREN being over powered, and I mean middle-school children, being overcome with this CRAP. THE WHOLE WORLD HAS GONE TO HELL, STRAIGHT!

We all seem to complain about it as if its something new, but isn't the world SUPPOSED to be headed straight towards hell?
Its in the Bible.

If the cheese belongs to someone else, is it "nacho cheese"?

The more repressive and inflexible a culture, the more the common people (and especially the young)rush to seek out exactly what is denied or prohibited to them.
This has historically been the case with sexuality since the Puritans, alcohol through prohibition and drugs of all sorts for the last 80 to 100 years.
It's just getting weirder now that the world has become smaller and this culture has become global.

If you think this is bad, just ask for a "cheese pizza" on any shady block in your town.

That's a trip you won't be coming back from.

"While it's definitely a parenting issue, it's also just one more reason to get your kids out of the cesspools that are public schools. Unless you also have this stuff at home, and then, well, you and they are screwed."

Oh, Billy D, you are SUCH a kidder.

See, I think his comment is too simplistic. Does he really think that private school kids don't abuse drugs? Drug problems can happen at many different schools, so the best thing to do is:

1. Instill anti-drug values in your children from an early age
2. Check the considered schools to find any widespread drug abuse on-campus and off-campus.

I think that this is stupid and people need to stop blaming parents for this!!
If you have a kid you better read this, your kid is going to try new things and get into trouble you might have to pull them away if it gets too serious but hey it's teenage years.

I have been educating kids on this drug for sometime, however until school systems add a drug education class requirement to school curriculum as a requirement we are just creating addicts instead of preventing them. We are the #1 drug consuming country in the world you would think prevention would be a mandatory class for students in this crazy, mixed-up world.
Parents keep fighting for your kids, and teachers don't give up hope for lack of discipline.

When will all of the nanny-state politics end. If i want to put cheese up my nose, who's the government to stop me!? Someone should tell these public school kids the secret that private school kids have been hiding for years: coke!

Listen I think all you americans are getting a little racist here and characteristic of americans "blame someone else and start desciminating"

See, it's crap like this that just infuriates me! The war on drugs is all messed up. Priorities have been skewered. Kids are dying from stuff like cheese, heroin, meth, and cocaine. I bet you've never heard of a kid dying from too much pot! Nope, there's pretty much no way to kill yourself by smoking too much pot. You read about kids dying from alcohol overdoeses often. Scan the news, have you EVER heard of a pot overdose? NO! Because you can't OD on it! Peroid. You're surely gonna see the next day! Marijuana is the safest drug you can do.
It's so much safer than alcohol that it should be legal, and alcohol should be illegal.

Enforcing marijuana laws costs an estimated $10-15 billion in direct costs alone. If we taxed and regulated it in a manner similar to alcohol, we'd generate several billion more dollars annually on top of the direct cost savings. So we'd have about $15+ billion dollars to help get rid of the hard drugs that could actually kill a kid. You should have to be 21 to buy pot. Pot's such a soft drug, it's squishy. Studies say that currently, pot is easier for minors to get than booze. The logical deduction that can be reached from this argument is that pot would be harder for youth to acquire if it were legal, but only available in package stores, like booze.

The great American Evangelist Billy Sunday said: "whiskey is allright in its place--but its place is in hell." I think he would say the same thing about drugs if he were alive today.

Marijuana causes brain damage. Sure, it may not kill you overnight, but if you keep on smoking it you will die of emphysema, lung cancer, car accidents, stupidity, etc. The first sign of brain damage from this drug is that you can't spell simple words, and you actually think that marijuana should be legal.

messed up!! no IDEA why anyone wud wana do that crap. and its not the parents fault if the kids wana do it they can sadly. time they start THINKIN FOR THEMSELVES but nope.. when everyhting they known is just told to them without any thought yea... im moving to SWITZERLAND WHOS WITH ME!!!!!!!!!

Concerned mom -- You seem to be missing the point. The point isn't whether or not marijuana is good for you. The point is that in comparison to a drug like alcohol, it's rather tame in its perceived social/physiological effects. In other words, alcohol can also cause brain damage, death "by stupidity", and accidents, yet it is decriminalized. The criminalization of marijuana is hypocritical and its roots actually stem from racism. That's right, the government originally made marijuana illegal in order to have another reason to arrest minorities. Anyway, I'm pretty sure my facts are straight and my spelling is correct. Instead of making a lame joke about signs of brain damage caused by marijuana, why don't you go read more than a magazine article and actually base your opinion on information gathered from more than one source. Encourage your child to make decisions after searching thoroughly for facts... not just accepting what seems popular. I'm sooooo looking forward to my death "by stupidity". :)

who ever does drugs is the most dumest stupidest people in the world. you are meesing up tour life you can easily get addicted to it, and when you want to quit you can't cause you're body is used to it and so are you. there's nothing you can do about it now.you will get caught sooner or later and you will pay the qonsequences.