Just curious - how old is your stepdaughter?
It sounds to me like she's being punished far too much for the crime she did, but perhaps I'm thinking she's younger than she is.
Then again, I disagree with most of the drug-related (legal or not) laws in the US and Canada. Possesion of a couple grams of weed is about equal to murder, and if you sell it to someone is far worse. And now because your stepdaughter made a relatively small mistake, she's had her future life effected in potentially a pretty serious way. What will be the long-term effects on her life as an adult after having this happen to her education? At least with the police not involved there will be no official record of it, or she would probably have a hard time ever traveling outside of the US too. I'd be argueing with the school about putting her back into her regular classes - don't punish her future potential in life. And ground her for the next year if thats what you feel she deserves.
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