Kid would have it coming to him, really. Seriously. Sparkle, no.

"Oh, they're afraid it's going to escalate. Like, fuck, we're gonna get all messed up on tobacco and start egging their cars or something. And if it's pot, like, fuck, nobody's going to want to do that. We'll just wander off to laugh at our thumbs while eating twice our body weight in cheezies or something."