C4 - Wednesday, November 4, 1981 - North Shore News ( Terry Peters photo.) By WESLEY G. PIPPERT WASHINGTON (UPI) - For at least ofie out of 10 high school seniors, the use of marijuana leads to in- ‘creasing drug dependence, a self-image close to zero, disastrous school and family relationships and frequent thoughts of suicide. Specialists in the field described the effects of marijuana on young people at a hearing last week before the Senate Labor and Human Resources _ sub- committee on alcoholism and drug abuse. “Marijuana seems to delude students,” an educator said. “They think they can drive an automobile better, study better, play music better, play football better, when it is quite obvious to everyone around them their performance 1s dechning.” The picture was not en- tirely black. A survey showed that for the third consecutive year, there has been ae gradual” dechne among high school sentors using marijuana but the sufvey did not cover drop outs. the biggest users Dr William Pollin, director oof the National Insitute on Drug Abuse. also noted a slight but sigmficant change in peer pressure, said to be a main reason youths start to smoke pol ‘schools, nant pn Te PUUG UE eee Pot and the down The proportion of seniors who think there is “great risk” in using marijuana regularly rose 50 per cent in the last two years and those who think their close friends would disapprove of use increased 10 per cent for the first time in 1980, Pollin said. A representative..of the National Association of Secondary School Prin- cipals, Mel Riddile of the Fairfax County, Va., public said users may claim their classes seem more stimulating when they are under the influence of Marijuana — but they admit they retain very little. “As students use more and more marijuana, they become less able to control their use, less able to evaluate their own behavior and less willing to accept responsibility for their actions,” Riddile said. Pediatrician Donald Ian MacDonald, of Clearwater, Fia., described four stages of drug use among the young. MacDonald said a child begins using drugs. probably alcohol and marijuana, in relative innocence. in’ the “learning the mood swing” stage “Mostimportandy, he is learning about chemical cuphorna.” MacDonald said Probably more than half of these youths enter the second stage of “seeking the mood swing” by taking Quaaludes and Speed buying drugs and using them *# with everlasting. elastic sihcone * prevents cracking. leaking, rotting * quality European workmanship can 988-5771 o: ano 988-8O56 MIHOFF ENTERPRISES GIVING A COOKING demonstration at the Cook's Nook in Park Royal South were cooking authors Anne Parker and Anne Connell ( right ). The writers, from Ontario, were on a promotional tour of the west with their Canadian bestseller “Georgian Bay Gourmet”. The two women got started because they both love to cook, entertain and eat. to deal with stress, he said. The child starts dropping out of extracurricular ac- tivities or finding school boring. School performance suffers and truancy begins. His friends are changing and so is his appearance. At. home his mood _ swings become noticeable and he becomes a con artist. “Unfortunately, the dual life of being one person at home and another at school and the increasing problems associated with school and friends put increasing pressure on the child,” MacDonald said. At least 10 per cent of high school seniors move into the stage of “preoccupation with the mood swing.” They live to get high. School and family relationships are a disaster. Selling drugs and other illegal activity become Necessary to support an increasingly expensive habit, MacDonald said “But perhaps worst of all ts what's happening tnside this seemingly ‘cool! and ‘laid back’ child,” he said “When not high, his self image is close to zero He's guilty and depressed Suicide is .an increasingly frequent thought.” Mac Donald said Suicide. he said, is now the No 1 kaller of college students and No 2 killer of adolescents “The child in stage TLE wall Nol recover without treatment or miracte | g MacDonald said. “He will either die or eventually pass to stage IV — the burnout stage.” reaching the unreached 1981 International stg Year =. of Disabled ‘ ‘& Persons Unicef Canada 4¥> ‘lover and he’s - PHILADELP strong. but he’s certainly no moving because of it. Ramar was shipped from a North Carolina zoo to the Philadelphia Zoo in 1978 to mate. 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