This show has 'Anti-Pot Agenda' written all over it
It's really getting old. (I'll always watch to see thuggish teens get the **** scared out of them, though...)
Seriously, it seems like everything in this show circles back around to marijuana. I'm willing to bet **CA$H MONEY** that the producers are the same type of twits who plug their ears and run away from debates on the matter of legality.
They clearly try to paint a plant as being the primary problem for these teens... not the horrible parents, not the crappy gang-member friends, not the lack of punishment or discipline, not the late-night partying, not the violence, not the running away from home, not the fighting, not the drinking, not the getting suspended from school... no. Weed is clearly the culprit.
Now I'm the FIRST to admit that kids in high school shouldn't be smoking pot, but they also shouldn't be doing any of the things I just listed in the previous paragraph. I'm not saying pot isn't part of the problem. Unfortunately, pot gets the spotlight simply because it's the 'most illegal' out of the group. That's just how simple-minded humans think - they need something to point a finger at, and it's never themselves. (All of this despite the fact that it should be decriminalized, and that every anti-pot advocate knows this)
You can tell the prisoners and guards have all been prompted to give very specific speeches when they talk - they've been prepped on the teens' backgrounds so they can ask probing questions. It's a-a-a-a-all loaded.
Bottom line: I know that smoking pot is a contributing factor to these situations, but do you think they could stop villainizing it so much? We all know what the argument against it is once the kid is old enough to smoke, right? "Um........ don't do it, because... it's illegal?"