The Desert Sands Unified School District board, located in the Palm Springs area of Southern California, will soon be voting on whether or not they will allow drug-sniffing dogs in local middle and high schools. Administrators, teachers, and parents are battling a rise of reported incidents of student drug possessions.

Proponents of the idea say using drug-sniffing dogs "gives parents, teachers and law enforcement officers another opportunity to nip drug use in the bud - while kids are still young and somewhat impressionable."

Many schools across the nation already use drug-sniffing dogs with much success. Administrators of districts already using dogs as deterrents agree that their schools face less drug problems. They say that drug-sniffing dogs are one of the most effective ways to keep drugs off school campuses. Read more from the Desert Sun.

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