> Ruining people's lives with criminal records is wildly disproportionate to the harm. If I understand the article correctly, it's a misdemeanor and a small fi

> Ruining people's lives with criminal records is wildly disproportionate to the harm. If I understand the article correctly, it's a misdemeanor and a small fine for nicotine vapes. This is far from ruining someone's life, I know people who got misdemeanors for more serious actions and they didn't have their lives ruined. In the vast majority of cases it does not seem that this is the issue you think it is. If a student is both an adult and is using flagrantly using marijuana in a school, and likely exposing their young friends' developing brains to the substance, then it is completely on them.