Strip Searched 2

John Cole wrote this so I didn’t have to (it refers to this news story):

While James and the Supreme Court are focusing on worthwhile Constitutional issues, this seems to me to be missing the point, and akin to trying to cure heart disease by making better defibrillators. We need to look at what got us to this point that school officials would even CONSIDER performing a strip search for over the counter medication. This is a manifestation of decades of drug war mania and the ensuing zero tolerance idiocy.

The medicine they were looking for was prescription Ibuprofen.

The only difference between over-the-counter and prescription Ibuprofen is the strength of the pill.

You can turn standard (200 mg.) OTC Ibuprofen into Rx Ibuprofen by taking three of them, instead of two.

By the way, after making the girl strip to her underwear in front of a committee, school officials found nothing.

Except a half-naked 13-year-old girl.

It is difficult for me not to think that the whole scene must of have been a little weird.

If I had a picture of her in that state, I would go to jail for a long time, have my reputation trashed in the newspaper and on television, have my picture splashed all over the place, and be required to register with the authorities for the rest of my life.

But they, of course, are (drum roll) School Officials Fighting the War on Legal Non-Addictive Painkillers.

By the way: In Delaware, students are prohibited from having any medicine, whether or not it’s prescription, on them while in school. They are supposed to turn any medicine into the school nurse at the beginning of the school day.

Pop Quiz: What’s the difference between medicine and medication? (Answer below the fold).

Answer: $50.00 and the bottle. Medication is obviously better. It has four syllables, not three.