Parents said kids are smoking pot on school buses and school grounds at Las Cruces High School

Parents said they're worried about drug use on school grounds at Las Cruces High School and on the school buses.

KFOX14 spoke with two mothers who admit that their daughters possessed or smoked pot, but they said they feel that the temptation never should have been present under the school's watch.

"I feel that the teachers should be more involved," Christina Medina said. "They should care a little bit more."

Medina said that her 15-year-old daughter was offered pot at the school bus stop, which she accepted.

After confronting her daughter, Medina said she was told that other kids were not only selling pot, but smoking it right on the bus.

"I feel that this could have been avoided," Medina said.

Medina said that she complained about the problems to the school a number of times.

Las Cruces High School students said that smoking marijuana happens all the time at school.

"It could be pretty easy," one male student said.

Angie Perez said that she discovered a pen cap filled with pot in her daughter's book bag which she learned was a common tactic used by kids in school.

"It had been burned at the tip where somebody had been smoking it," Perez said.

Perez said her daughter was given the marijuana from a friend who bought the drugs on school property.

Las Cruces Public School officials said that it's true there has been drug use, but said the problem is no worse at Las Cruces High School than in any other school of its size.

"There's never enough eyes or ears in the day to be able to prevent it," Las Cruces Public Schools spokesperson Jo Galvan said.

Galvan said that Las Cruces High School takes drug offenses very seriously.

"When they know about drugs, it's dealt with immediately," Galvan said. "The attitude is we're not going to stand for it."

Galvan said 15 students have been caught and disciplined for drug use at Las Cruces High School so far this school year, with some facing the maximum punishment of a year suspension.