Detroit superintendent: Legal weed spurs huge increase in school drug-related incidents

Drug-related incidents have skyrocketed in the Detroit Public Schools Community District — going from 289 incidents in 2019-21 to 1,735 incidents in 2021-23 — and Superintendent Nikolai Vitti is asking state leaders for help curbing what he claims is a "distressing escalation" of marijuana in schools, he wrote in a letter sent Thursday. Vitti wrote that during this school year alone, the district has faced 745 drug-related incidents. The superintendent wrote that edible packaging has become particularly problematic in schools, because packaging can look like regular candy, making it easier...