Well, TSchmidty, your friend may not be a bad kid, but he's clearly not one who thinks much about the ramifications of his actions. Schools, in case you haven't figured it out, are not like the rest of the world when it comes to privacy and Bill of Rights protections. The courts have pretty much routinely sided on the behalf of schools when it comes to searches, seizures, probable cause, and the like. Fair? No. But schools make their policies very clear from the get-go about not bringing any remotely drug- or alcohol-related materials onto school grounds.

Sounds like you might need to place the blame here where it really lies, on your friend and not the administrators of his school.