a . . : ‘MONDAY, MARCH 15,1971 Cont'd from Page 8. to get back to Terrace. dealer-knows Tr-town who 2 a 1 an eal on either #250 will usually yield about $60) and this individual, let's say his name isSteve, said there was no "tisk if you're careful. He only sells to people he knows and doesn’t keep his ‘stock at his residence. aan = Steve said .“everyone who where to get it, RY The average price in Terrace hashish) but I $12." or He said there is a progression. sell mine ‘for grass and its “neat”, they try hash and its “neater still’, then acid which is “neater still," and s0 on. 8b go A kilo of marijuana sells for mee $210 to $275 in B.C., but it starts a 6Ocff 6 costing $28 from the peasants in‘ Mexice, where: its growth is widespread. By the time it gets toSan Francisco the m= price is $85 and in Seattle its B ° $130. aa 6 Steve said the whole busines mm is very organized but in Terrace me those who sell grass or hash are w usually just guys who go to Vancouver to buy it. The quality of the grass that reaches “Terrace, he said; is “not very: good 20 per, cent is alfalfa,” 8 ..Growing-your own is. often a: side line and Steve said plants - © grow lo an average of six feel # around Terrace during the . y growing season. Possibly .as av smokes it or wants it knows, . is $15 an ounce ($7 a gram for: - leading to heroin since kids try... + hint to those with green fingers, _ Steve said seeds are being | @erminated at. about this time. .Latély. -he’. has“ found that “interest dropped; and “that: more: older. people’ are’ buying: marijuana. ~ Steve’ said ‘the ‘police in errace ‘‘don’t hassle ‘you 8 you're very open-with. '« your dealing.'"') "8 ) 7 He said ‘They (potice) . in Terrace. .- . re Asked if any physical damage | ‘Lis: cauged by the : frequent » smoking of pot; He said he had noticed a‘‘certain loss of memory among users, ',-_ Finding. people who have titted. difficult: ee ’ It ‘is interesting that two heroin: users: interviewed who had -tried) marijuana are indifferent: towards the drag. One young. man in Terrace who has made-a good - bit’ of money selling’ dope, on.a full’. time basis in a large Canadian ° city said “grass isn’t that big a thing to me. I get stoned once in . a while but.if-I:didn’t have it I wouldn’t miss it,”: . He said “there are far more . people. taking’. soft drugs in Terrace than adulfs would like to believe” but he‘feels the real menace is hard drugs, such as heroin, a One thing: that “bugs” himis the fact that the alcohol and heroin problem has been around for years but little has been done to solve it. “Cops are going after. the kids instead of the heroin pushers...they: aren't. going after the source,” he said. "| Describing himself as a social’ ~ pot smoker, ‘Dave’ (who holds a full time responsible position in » ‘town) said, “marijuana is Cont'd from Page 8 She is, however, scared to try “hippie drugs” such as LSD. . “You can control heroin but the ‘hippie drugs do things to your’ meee |= mind; she said. i.)../- frre Shte also, tried marijuana, opt “of curiosity” ‘bul it didn’t ‘do ‘anything for me.” ¢. 2 2)..° 3 Rita has accepted the fact that she will always need *-something - and feels that “Methadone is the only answer forme”. . _ With a doctor’s prescription -.She spends about three dollars each week to get the drug. "Methadone is described,” by: the.. Narcotic | Addiction Foundation of B.C., as ‘a syuthetic narcotic and is . addictive in the same sense as heroin, This mode of treatment - is proposed to find out whether, by substituting a legal narcotic -for heroin, and thereby eliminating the need to steal large amounts of money for illicit habits, addicts can become law-abiding, productive members of society,’ _. Rita is thankful for being able . to obtain this drug. ‘‘So many . fee §=6people. used to be on street ee = corners, in Vancouver but they are now up here working...90 per cent of all addicts in _ Terrace have full-time jobs,” Shesgid. . . Having a sympathetic doctor f= in Terrace helps control crime, COSFeoooreon Two sets of friends she said, and added that more break-ins would cecur in a town which didn’t have a doctor willing to prescribe Methadone to the addicts. Even in Terrace i ouvir inany ddctors {throw you-out of = their office, ".shesaid. not to give prescriptions and on addicts to make them leave * town. “When pushers come to - | , town the police figure we bring them,” she explained but added that as long as she can get Methadone she would never buy heroin, _ “Society won't accept drug addiets,'” she said, “but it’s a sickness, your blood has to have it.” She feels that the attitudes ‘toward drugs today correspond - to those toward aleohol many years ago (during prohibition in. the United States), “Why make _ people sneaky?” she asks, The ‘present system “turns out criminals, they have to get the money somehow.” She feels the “system they have in England, where heroin is. legal ‘ on prescription to confirmed drug addicts, : ‘would be an improvement on the present set-up In Canada, « - One paint Rita made about heroin was, "If you're, going to . Start it you must be prepared to do it all your life?’ .- wn .-chemieals has- probablyrknow-a lot more than . t they put on’ and he himself can . |, Spotundercover agents working marijuana: in: Terrace: is not’ rraryt _ , Rita believes that tie RCMP — + is putting pressuré on doctors expands. your mind’...Anyone who becomes . ‘ mentally dependent on drugs is stupid . because. they are not doing themselves‘or anyone else any good.” res . to tears as tha about.” '. He believes that too much is. . being made out-of the subject ‘of - Mtarijiana.om both sides; from: - ’ those tlia€ oppose it t6 those that: - are for it, ‘There. are’ more ‘important things’ ta worry . about," he said. 0°50 1. Dave “said -“‘Every - kid in . own can get it if he wants it’, but added that he was not that concerned about the drug scene in Terrace. ~ out of: the hotels as to see kids stoned.””. . +! 7 Dave feels a lot of kids are foolish by’ being so epen about at escapism. *I-don't think it oo ees st ignite a bit‘of dope in the past “People who do dope bore me Z [ oe ad Ps’ all they talk . ” smoking dope because “it’s n : good having a (crimina : “record.* ot " ‘Laugliing, he issued -this.+ warning: “Only buy off people; . you know.” Pee _, Another guy who had smaked ‘said, “Ihave no yen to try it again because I found through ....' -experience that a person with a’ *. deep set emotional problem or a nervous — disorder can ‘be adversely effected’, © >, One young girl said,‘'it (dope). -.. increases -your senses,..m body becomes more sensitive to. feeling” dnd added. that her™ 2 enjoyment of music and food : - heightened while stoned, One user said, ‘‘Many.parents (including his mother): are curious about grass but won't dying ‘Asked for’ his views ‘on the drug situation in Terrate, Bill Young, envoy for the Salvation Army, said he didn’t think the situation was too:bad.. 0... He has. noticed ‘that people aren’t talking about it so much. “For a lime it was quite a thing...a lot of kids tried it for kicks. It was a fad but it’s now died down,”’ he said i Young said there were not many mainliners in Terrace. - “There's abit of weed about but | il’sslow right now”, he said and- added that it would never be cleaned out completely. Young does counselling to For him “it is just as sorry a _Sight to see drunks come rolling © ’ try it because of its social ban.’ Some. other ‘remarks from marijuana smokers were: --, “The. prices are’too high “There's a fot of hassles wi chemicals” "°° 5 | “+. INJECTION of dope in the # pie. tore arm peopte with a drinking problem. © in Terrace. -He ‘said,?.*Only about 10 per cent of alebholies. hit Skid Road but there‘is no Skid Road in Terrace...The ethod of producing “highs”. transient drinker doesn’t stay . : ; ong.” . . u eh a 4s a commen ‘m cm 1 Drugs and Christianity, aceérding to Rev, Don Lewis, can give the same results but whereas a drug experience last oniy about 12 hours, and is a fleeting thing, Christianity is-a-. lasting experience; © ’ Rev. Lewis, minister at the: “Knox United Church,’ said drugs muddle a_person’s thinking but Christianity gives a clear in-sight into life. Both Rev. Lewis and Wilbur _ James, also at the United . the problems caused by the use of drugs... Rev. Lewis said the root cause is because society is mismanaging itself. He feels the pressures adults place on young people to achieve over and above their abilities causes: them to seek escape through drugs — an escape which could . temporary or’ be either | permanent. ’ He said “Pm nat condeming adults because they don’t know Church, ‘are concerned about | they're goind it...nor parents for. the pressure they are putting on their kids: .He added that high.,« . marks are prestigous for adults - as well as for their children, He feels that both parents and . schools place too high a value on™. the academic side of life. James placed drugs and alcohol in the same area saying that they both cause..an abnormal state. “He said the, Christian religion helps. people _ to enjoy the real things othe : - eOlor of life ’ He described the “religious high” which many - people experience; finding real enjoyment in the world and helping others; = 2 3: 4. _ Unfortunately, he added,’ some people are “so heavenly- minded they're no earthly good.” | ; He said, “Society has built an image and many are. opting out - * of this...but not all by means of : r ' drugs’. Some people opt out by way of drugs because they can’t take it, he said, but others opt out of the conventions of society _ while. doing their own thing . within its bounds. _ a And speaking specifically » about religion, he ‘said “The ae mioment that any organization eliminates free expression, r'll opt aut too.” He feels there should always be an opportunity to question anything. ~ = >. Rev. -Lewis feels that . the “quiet revolution” has failed. He said you have to have things today in a loud way, we are bombarded with words, and it . takesa hippie with his contrasts — to gain attention. He feels that drug use is a form of violence _but that alcoho] is an even more violent way of degrading man. ‘ He considers alcchol to be “the number one ‘enemy: of society.” . ; The reason, he believes, why drugs and alcohol are being WEE Cont'd from Page & “To the best of my knowledge students -aren't drinking alcohol, having sexual intercourse, -smoki or consuming drugs in school,” he. said although he realized that of school it might be a different . Matter. © . Bastin said “Teeenagers are. ‘as experimental today as they - ever were, or more ~so” he added, “I’m sure 'a lot have experimented with pot.” He passed on an observation. ‘made to him by a member of the RCMP, .who said that because there is no teenage -drinking problem in Terrace there must. be a marijuana problem. “T suspect that there are a ‘few, but a very: few, regular’ -consumers of marijuana ‘attending this school but the only evidence! haye is that they appear to be drifters in their work.” | ee -He didn’t feet’ that pressure from parents was_responsible ‘for drug use among studénts in : Terrace, | : ‘He pointed out that in Terrace “parental expectations are less . » ‘because the town does not. have “a. large professional group of _4 2 people'who often pressure thelr |. I. ‘children to goon to universities, Bastin said, ‘‘From.a selfish - ‘point. of view regular users of _)-potorany hard‘drug cause little . “S threal: to’ the ‘school “as” these‘ | CHILDRENS - | WEARS - = LIMITED $ WHERE © { “) QUALITY 3 " OUTWEARS -}: PRICE f 14444 LAKELSE AVE. Se PCeeooeooe Students drop-ouk"! 0” - Both: he: and viee-principal’ , “Skip Bergsma -agree-that : the _ academic achlevement in the, School is- good and they.’ are impressed by the behavior of . . the vast aniount: of students. ‘Y.- Prinee Rupert? "82 “The prinelp Said that’ the - : educational ‘means used in‘the - ' schools-to try to reduce the usé . Of: drugs,” alcohol, ‘or ‘the -practice of. sexual intercourse, .. has’. never’ ‘reduced’: ‘the’: problems, “The ¢enly goad thing. ' about drug-education, he said, PHONE 635-2025 ° ¢ . He the less'said publicly the’ better , although. 'L-don’t. want to: zive ‘as yet, had HO overt cases of it at “Bastin added that: he couldn't. | . say the same about ‘Kitimat or - Using drugs was because it is .attempt:: to.duplicate adults’ rincipals find few was that it seemed to have scared people from using LSD. Bergsma added “‘At the senior school level the real problems have already left the school system.” a — JOHN E. BASTIN: +o booze, dope or sex at his school. Bastin -blamed’ an increasingly sick sociéty’” as _the overall .reason for the increase in‘drug use. At Skeena. Junior. Secondary School ‘the principal, Don Cunningham, the drug problem. said he sometimes thoight an ostrich-impression,? He' said he is aware of drug us¢ among students but he has Skeena; . - » “Tsquestion the widespread ‘Use of-drugs:'in Terrace by students...I/-don’t’ think there are,many,’! he:said, *- : ‘The reasons he gave the kids the ‘in’ thing to do or they behavioy, -He agreed with Vice- principal “Walt. McIntyre that 8 act ' - With wholesome activities,” Pp upon to be néarly everything,” -j :, parents who take’an interest in is also aware of .& im peer group pressure was probably a major reason, = , “Social pressure is at the root of it...they have no responsibility like they had before,” he explained. . McIntyre ‘added, “We: beat our brains out trying to come up said the squarely in Cunningham responsibility rests the parents lap. “Parents have got to be aware of what their children are doing. Schools are only one institution in the. ..- oo community...but they are called he said. an He‘ pointed -out that those their children, attending basketball tournaments’ for instance, rarely seem to have problems. “Kids don’t grow up by themselves” he said. - _ TERRACE 7 4551 Greig Ave. on Christ _ Said, “I find: that parents a ‘spoken to say they have | Cabaret |/ THis WEEK 3° “hone reservations “635.2231 - - PPO9O06SO59000664660060 used is because society is afraid to look at itself. “The younger generation is what we have made them,)’ he added. ' Talking’ about the drug situation in Terrace, Rey. Lewis more concerned. when their children aren't on them than when they actually find out they are using drugs,’’ He said, ':‘I don’t have any. doubt that one (drug) ‘will iead lo another... The people I have progressed from soft to hard drugs.” . James added, “They may not be hurting themselves but they - are hurting their parents and society.” . Rev, Lewis warned, “The general deterioration of man is what we have to look at.” He wonders why it is necessary for people to use either drugs or alcohol. Turn on to.a good movie. 4 :