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...John H. Gagnon in a jointly written paper, "and what appears to adults as unreasonable, is that the prize be located at the top of the Cracker Jack box, not at the bottom." Another attraction, they add, is that drugs can screen out reality and allow the youthful user to withdraw to the private sanctuary of his self...
Society must recognize as well that the child drug user is the casualty of great and upsetting social change. In one sense, says Clinical Psychologist Stephen Rush of the Los Angeles Free Clinic, he has become a displaced person in a culture that his grandfather would not recognize-or much care for, either. Parental permissiveness, the growing conviction that the young and old generations have lost contact-such factors erode the old-fashioned family solidarity that once granted children a comforting sense of place. "The real solution," says Rush, "is in finding ways for young people to become active members...
However, the Bureau of the Budget has insisted in the past that government-sponsored projects be charged no more for a computer service than any other user...
After Contributing Editor Katie Kelly reported on hippie habits, she received 1) a request to supply marijuana to a user in need, 2) an offer from a seller to help retail pot, and 3) a suggestion from state authorities that she become an undercover informer. Naturally, she declined all three. A picture of Researcher Linda Young in connection with an election story produced a sudden swain, who wrote: "I was madly in love with this girl who looks exactly like you. Anyway, she finally got married last September and I've been lost ever since...
...Farnsworth characterized the behavior of a typical heavy marijuana user as being unmotivated and non-communicative. "After they're set in the pattern," he said, "they often can't cope with reality. Responsible, achievement-oriented students change, their minds begin to drift...