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Article: Marijuana popular with high-schoolers West Allis student says sales at Hale shouldn't come as a surprise
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- March 28, 1996
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A Central High School student says that people should not be
surprised that an undercover police officer was able to buy
marijuana while posing as a student for two months at cross-town
rival Nathan Hale High School.
Marijuana, said Jesus Ali, a senior at Central, "has quickly
become the most prevalent drug among my high school peers."
Close behind is alcohol and psychedelic drugs, he said.
Jesus, who has written for the Journal Sentinel's Jump section,
talked to three drug users at Central to learn more about use there.
They all told him they were introduced to drugs by friends.
The interviews came after West Allis police arrested 16 Hale
students and nine non-students last week in ...