Yeah, Virginia in general is super fucked up with punishment for things in school. For instance, if someone is fighting you and beats the shit out of you, you don't get in any trouble. If you hit back to defend yourself, that's 10 days of OSS, which is enough absences to make you automatically fail your classes for the semester.
I also have another story, directly related to drugs and punishment here, not making a throwaway because I don't care and honestly hate my school here. Also I'm sorry if I make any spelling mistakes, I'm on my phone:
I was in 8th grade and in the "gifted" classes, so I had known the same 25 or so people for the last 5 years. I was dating a girl at the time and she was best friends with another girl, who was extremely creepy. Picture all of the awful edgy teenager stereotypes, and you get the girl I'm talking about. Well, one day, my ex's friend walks into my French class, with a container of "mints". It ended up being Xanax, and was offering it to kids in the class. She offered it to me, and I took it and put down the water fountain drain. Keep in mind that she was my at-the-time girlfriend's best friend of 5+ years, so I didn't want to be the guy who gets her expelled. I went to my next class and everything was fine. I get to my class after that, and I get called down to the office along with my girlfriend. I knew exactly what this was about. I was questioned about if I took the pill, how I felt, and when they concluded I was fine, they told me to wait in the office. It felt like years in that chair, not talking, sitting near 4 other people. I was a tough guy, but it was hard holding back tears from the level of axiety I got from that.
Next, they call me into the office first, I'm told that "they had to do this" and that "their hands were tied" and suspend me for 5 days, made me go to this school-punishment center type of thing where I'm told if I violate ANY rules for the rest of my time in school, I'm going to be expelled. After that, I had to go to rehab once or twice a week, for drugs I didn't even take. Lastly, I would've had to testify against her in court, but she plead guilty, thank god. They did this to a 12 or 13 year old kid.
When I got back to school, my friends who I had for many years rejected me, hated me, thought I was a drug addict, and many worse things. I felt suicidal, and I was only 13 fucking years old, I was always a happy kid then, I talked to everybody and wanted to be friends with everyone. I'm a junior in high school and I'm just now starting to open myself up again. I'm just about 17 now. I have crippling social anxiety that stops me from being able to talk to pretty much any new person, and damn near impossible to talk to anyone of the opposite gender.
TL;DR This isn't anything uncommon in Virginia. Fuck them and fuck the school systems here. If this blows up (I doubt it will) I'll answer any questions when I get home.
Also, I forgot to mention that the girl in the story is in my next class from when I'm typing this. Her and I can't even make eye contact, so that's a thing I guess.