Clinton News-Record, 1987-02-18, Page 3OPI' Constable John Marshall discusses drugs and drug paraphernalia with interested parents and students
Parents get the dope on drugs in Vanastra
By David Emslie
VANASTRA - Local parents were given
the opportunity to learn more about drugs
and their effects when Ontario Provincial
Police Constable John Marshall visited the
public school here on February 4.
Constable Marshall opened the discussion
by explaining that the slides the parents
were about to see were roughly the same
local children have seen in the Values, In-
fluences and Peers I VIP i program.
The first type he discussed were the group
of drugs derived from the opium poppy,
known as opiates.
"They're not the same poppies that 'are
grown in Canada, they are specially
cultivated," Constable Marshall noted, ad-
ding that once the petals fall off the flower, a
process is carried out to draw the raw opium
from the flower pod.
"Raw opium is converted into a morphine
base in illegal labs, it is odorless, tastes bit-
ter and darkens with age."
Of the drugs in this group, the two most
well known would be heroin and morphine.
Considered a hard drug, heroin was first
found in morphine in 1874. Constable Mar-
shall explained that heroin •is never pure
when purchased from a trafficker as it is cut
with milk sugar, quinine or other powdery
substances.
Although it is not pure when bought by an
addict, the habit can cost an addict
anywhere from $500 to $1,000 a day.
According to Constable Marshall, "They
inject 12 to 14 times a day on an average,
and the wall of the vein eventually breaks
down." In his slide show he demonstrated
what can happen when the veins break.down
as there was a picture of an addicts arms
covered with scabs and raw tissue.
In British Columbia there is a serious pro-
blem with heroin addicts, and to combat this
they are using a synthetic narcotic known as
methadone to get the addicts off of heroin.
Unfortunately, methadone is also habit
forming.
Cocaine
"Cocaine is a fluffy, crystaline substance;
it looks like fresh fallen snow," Constable
Marshall began on his next subject. "It
comes from the coco bush."
Aside from yielding cocaine, the leaves of
the coco bush also give some chemicals for
cola drinks. "In the early 1900's you could
get very high on coca -cola," Constable -Mar-
shall pointed out.
These days, to get a high on cocaine the
users may ingest the chemical through in-
haling it through their nose, smoking it or
dissolving it in water and injecting it.
To reach this high the cost can be
anywhere from $50 to $75 per quarter ounce
on the street. Even at this cost, the high
lasts a very short time, a matter of minutes.
Although it is a very intense high, it may be
followed by an intense low or down.
PCP
Constable Marshall spoke only briefly on
PCP or Angel Dust, pointing out that this is
one of the most dangerous drugs taken by
human beings.
It was originally developed as an animal
tranquilizer and anaesthetic for surgery,
but its use on humans was stopped when it
was discovered what bizarre effects it can
produce.
Included in its effects, Constable Marshall
noted, are feelings of weightlessness, dying
or being dead. A person niay also become
violent while on the drug.
PCP is usually smoked in tobacco or mari-
juana cigarettes.
Marijuana
"Marijuana has been around for about
5,000 years, but it was not until the 1930's it
came into Canada in large amounts," said
Constable Marshall.
Known as grass, pot or weed, marijuana
is a greenish tobacco -like substance that is
smoked in hand rollyd cigarettes or in
pipes.
Common boundary lines are needed
By Shelley McPhee Haist
CLINTON - The disfranchisement 01 rural
areas and the need for common boundary
lines between various boards of education
were the focus of discussion between trustee
members when they met at the Huron Coun-
ty Board of Education officers here on
February 2.
The discussion was based on recommen-
dations that will be forwarded to the Ontario
Public School Teachers' Association
i OPSTA I regarding the report on trustee
apportionment for Ontario's school boards.
The HCBE has noted concern with three
particular areas in the report -
1. "In order to foster stability of representa-
tion and identification, boundaries of boards
of education and Roman Catholic separate
school boards be coterminous wherever
possi ble."
2. "That equalized residential and farm
assessment be discarded as the basis for ap-
portioning trustee representation for school
boards in the province of Ontario. That the
determination of trustee representation be
based on some measure of population."
3. "The general lack of specific information
which would clarify that overall effect on
Huron County of implementing the
recornrncnda ti ons."
Director of education Bob Allan told the
trustees, "I don't think this report envision-
ed the Huron -Perth circumstances. There is
no local flavor to this report."
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Affirmative action program
continues at board office
By Shelley McPhee Haist
CLINTON — Providing diversification
and occupational variety for women in the
education system in Huron County has
again been supported by trustees here.
At their February meeting the Huron
County Board of Education (HCBE)
trustees approved a motion that calls for ap-
iication to the Ministry of Education's Af-
firmative Action grant program. The board
has received funding from this program for
the past two years.
The Affirmative Action program in Huron
County was first established in 1985. At that
time the board of trustees adopted a policy
statement that read, "In demonstrating its
commitment to achieving employment op-
portunity, the board hereby undertakes a
program of Affirmative Action for its
women employees in order to diversify their
occupational distribution within the system
and to eliminate any identified barriers to
their employment opportunity."
s part of the establishment of the pro-
g„a half-time Affirmative Action Co -
or t;1,9,ator was employed.
HCBE director Bob Allan said that since
the program was initiated in Huron, "The
Huron County Board of Education has taken
a very positive approach to employee affir-
mative action. We have made steady pro-
gress and avoided controversy."
At the board's February meeting, Mr.
Allan presented a report from the minister
of education for the province, Sean Conway.
Mr. Conway reported, "The government is
comitted to the principle of employment
equity. Nowhere is it more important that
this principle be observed than in the pro-
vince's education system. The role of educa-
tion and the values it reflects in both human
resource deployment and curriculum is
critical. Ministry of Education policy re-
quires that students have the opportunity to
see men and women in a variety of roles.
The school system must be at the forefront
in reflecting the changing roles of women
and men by eroviding an environment that
exemplifies sex equity, both in the role
models it provides and the teaching
materials it uses.
Since Affirmative Action funding was first
provided iib 1985. Grant monies have gone to
79 school boards in the province. Mr. Con-
way said that in order to sustain the existing
program, and to expand it, the ministry will
continue to offer financial support until 1989.
The minister of education reported that by
the end of 1989, "school boards should plan
to demonstrate evidence of significant pro-
gress towards the achievement of an en-
vironment that exemplifies sex equity. I am
therefore requesting school boards to adopt
this object at all levels of the educational
system, with the aim of raising the number
and diversifying the occupational distribu-
tion of women to a minimum of 30 percent in
all occupational categories by the year
2000."
"This aim will require ongoing commit-
ment and study," Mr. Allan remarked tCr
HCBE trustees.
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