College Student Arrested for Marijuana - the world is safer.

The Sheriff of Knox county Ohio, a county with a serious methamphetamine problem, arrested a student at Kenyon College for the sale of minor quantities of marijuana on April 23rd, 2009. The arrest came after the sheriff had been keeping watch of the student for almost a full semester, a drain on hundreds of hours of police time and energy in a county that is struggling to keep up with it's frequent meth lab busts. The sheriff raided the dorm room to find a few grams of marijuana, some paraphernalia, and a scale.

This was the second drug bust on the campus this year, the other also involving such tactics as police stake outs and raids. Both events ended the students term at the college for good and put a serious obstacle in their way of attaining a college degree. Only the more recent arrest is now in the Ohio jail system, which is bowing under the weight of it's increasing population following the increase of methamphetamine arrests. The first arrest this semester was of a white student, who has since returned to New York to live with his family, but the more recent arrest was a black student, one of the few at Kenyon College, who is facing prison time in Ohio. Now this man will be a felon fighting for a place in the work force as opposed to a college graduate looking for his niche in the working world.