“If my friend who smokes more than I do refers me to a dealer, I won’t question it,” said an anonymous B-CC student.
“Every time I walk into a bathroom, someone is hitting a vape,” said Junior Cassidy Carroll, adding, “usually there are big groups of girls in the stalls smoking.”
While vaping may seem harmless, the skyrocketing cases of fatal overdoses amongst teens in Montgomery County are anything but. However, the ubiquity and subsequent normalization of this phenomenon are reflected in the now common term: “bathroom culture.”
The use of substances is not surprising to most students, as the “bathroom culture” is flooded with vape products full of nicotine or marijuana. B-CC student, Jack Brossi, said “It smells like weed a lot of the time [in the bathroom].” This being the normal environment for most students, some feel forced to succumb to peer pressure or simply avoid the bathroom altogether.
B-CC has struggled to curtail this trend, closing bathrooms entirely...
