So as most of you know I work at a youth club and obvs we have a zero tolerance policy regarding substance abuse/use. Meaning the youth, staff, visitors, volunteers, and whoever else comes into my work, can not be under the influence of anything. We have 12 - 17 yr old youth, so we need to make sure that they feel safe and the environment is healthy at all times. I can't have high or drunk, even if it's recreational, youth around younger youth. Aside from that them smelling is a potential trigger, as youth might remember trauma associated with those smells. Aside from these two things, we are a youth club. Not a rehab center. What we can do is give them info about rehabilitation and resources but we do not specialize in dealing with kids under the influence. And I absolutely don't want anyone to feel comfortable enough to come into it smelling/wtv. And as paranoid as this seems, I don't want them to start selling/buying wtv at my work. This actually happened at our previous location, before I worked there, bc employees let it slide and eventually it became a spot where kids would buy, sell and get regularly smashed at. All around much younger kids. So. Nope. Not happening while I'm here.

So weed was recently legalized and I made a post on our fb page reminding youth/parents that we still have a zero tolerance policy. Nothing surprising. We are ALSO located inside of a SCHOOL. But regardless of where we are located we have this policy. No exceptions.

Some dude who looks like he's in his late thirties and looks stoned out of his fucking mind in most of his pics, and who I have NEVER met and who has kids too young to even come to our club, comments about how the policy is "messed up" bc aren't we "supposed to help kids". He kept repeating "this is just my opinion" like a neckbeard, fedora wearing, basement dwelling white dude who has to play "devil's advocate" or throw his two cents in even if he doesn't have ANY idea what services we provide to kids in need and what we do. like. it annoyed me. I started typing a really professional reply to let him know we take appropriate actions when we believe the environment is compromised, etc and what else we do for kids. then decided wtv. this dude is a nobody. so i just banned him from the fb page lmao. it was so annoying. i'm just not gonna post stuff like that again, i even deleted the post but jesus. way to twist something. also weird that an older dude who active on a youth club page idk? none of the staff knew him either so he wasn't a mutual friend.