"hashish on Paulinum?" - Informer is going to self-determination vs. "confirm emphatically us experts in the attitude that, especially the consistent and open investigation of violations of the law on drugs around the school, the law-abiding behavior of pupils permanently strengthens. ... Parents and peers, the information pass on drug use, and ultimately help the victims. " - School management of the high school Paulinum
"If you want to get rid of an unbearable pressure, one has hashish necessary." Friedrich Nietzsche
The Paulinum, Germany's oldest secondary school ( founded 797) and Cathedral School No. 1 tradition, makes headlines in connection with drug use. It has become the epicenter of a chase, a local " War on Drugs", proclaimed by school custodians of morality. The citizens of Münster is appalled: not about the way in which classmates are denounced here and developed a culture of mistrust, but about something like that terrible as cannabis use in the cathedral city can happen at all.
It began with a denunciation in November 2009: A student of the school Paulinum probably wanted to watch any more obvious with how his schoolmates stoned to death and must therefore the initiative, out of charity, the school management zuzustecken a reference to it. The hunt for the upper secondary drug users was opened. " Within a few days," so the Paulinum proudly announced on its website, the culprit could be taken to their grass were apparently by a classmate, who was talking again "school stranger " contacts to a . The consumption, much admits the Paulinum one, after all, took place exclusively outside the school premises, only money for the purchase of marijuana had been transferred there.
course, it left the Executive Board present: Now it went to the next level in pursuit of the dealer. In " close coordination with the Commissioner of Police Headquarters Münster "of suppliers could be determined. The dealer confessed that pothead on Paulinum total came with a black eye like this, only those who accept Pauline, who had passed the cannabis, had to order actions by the school, but "just below the dismissal from school." As mild, the school administration finally did turn out the penalties, apparently even annoyed to have to deal with this issue at all, all the more terrifying is the consequence drawn from this case:
The Paulinum advocates denunciations of violations of the Narcotics Act, a law which was appointed by the Federal Constitutional Court in 1994 described as inconsistent and in need of editing (a reminder that the legislature has still not met!). Completely senseless rumors spread by state authorities is explained by the feat, but also help the interested parties (we had not before?). This again indicates that measurements in Germany with a double standard: If someone was going to the headmaster and then announced that student X in his spare time, although under 18, behind at parties Westphalian double the grain Binding tilts, then the headmaster would say that was his thing and I have to do with the school nothing. Whether the transfer of funds to purchase the liquor on campus took place or not, no one would have interest. The school (and the legislature) argues with regard to the protection of citizens from themselves, for the criminalization and "soft drugs". Why are then reported to the police in Germany the opportunity Kiffer, while shaken alcoholics at the school, only the head? Why the school community by the senseless criminalization of individual students who have just decided to cannabis use is made unnecessarily? The coma drunkard be laughing up his sleeve in the face of this government arbitrariness. This should not be misunderstood: it is not a tougher deal with drinkers, but a rethink of drug policy towards the right of self determination.
Another episode in the case of Paulinum is the gain of "prevention" and campaigns such as days of drug prevention in middle school. In principle, prevention of liberals always an unnecessary government restriction of freedom are preferred. Nevertheless, the word prevention must still all the alarm bells ring, the state intervenes before anything happened? Taxes are collected in order thereof either bored or amused middle school students to tell something about the dangers of drug use? Should not schools, regardless of individual opinions, it gives students into their own hands, what they want to do with their lives? And there are other opinions, away from the demonization of drug use can not be denied: It is no coincidence that the legalization movement in the U.S. its two centers in Berkeley, California (home of the prestigious Berkeley University) and Cambridge, Massachusetts (home of Harvard University) has. Education and drug use are not in contradiction, and if the elite universities of the world Kiffer bring forth, then the conservative outcry prevention works for us (in which all parties always happy mood) rather petty.
This drug should be trivialized in any way. It's just that the right to self-determination should be paid higher than the state intervention to "protect" their own judgments. Schools have a responsibility to inform the students about the various aspects of drug use, threats to make clear and as the students in a position to To enable a responsible way with drugs. There are huge deficits - in which school students soon learn the dangers of alcohol compared to determine which of cannabis use? But it is our schools is not about the welfare of young people. It's about the "strengthening lawful conduct sustainable" . But everyone has, have, according to Kant, the right to be free of his body and himself to decide what he does in his spare time, as long as it restricts the freedom of others present. This philosophy of education is entered at the grammar school Paulinum underfoot.
Bad Schandau, 30 January 2010 to Annual district convention met the members of the FDP district association in the Saxon Switzerland and the Erzgebirge Elbhotel Bad Schandau on 30/01/2010, in rotation to select the new circuit board. The former district chairman Uwe Stegemann was confirmed, as well as our Freitaler (board) members Christian Epperson (photo) as 1 Deputy, who also later for his 60th Birthday was honored, and Lothar Brandau as a circle treasurer. New to the Board, our Secretary Hans-Joachim Beer as assessor, while the local chairman Oliver May at his own request from the County Board was eliminated. This still three open crowns are represented in the district board. For the 2 Was elected deputy chairman of the local branch Wilsdruff, Jürgen Menzer, the local chapter of the region Freital because of its financial support in the local and state elections is deeply indebted to. OM 
