European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 13, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 the stars and stripes thursday february 13, 1969 Mary Neth editor pot a problem among military teens by Phil Dodson staff writer names Weed cannabis Maryjane Ori t has Many hashish grass just Plain  the favorite euphemism is pot and Safe officials Are alarmed at the rat eat which dependent students Are puffing away at the controversial intoxicating Weed. In a program designed by the military parents in the Wiesbaden area were shown some of the effects of drug abuse and were Given an Opportunity in an informal panel Type discussion to find out what they could do to Stem drug use by their  to the gathering were or. Robert l. Zondervan Safe s to psychiatrist Ahr Force Osi special agent Jeffrey c. Froehle and Charles , supervising principal of the wies Baden schools system. Emphasis was placed on the use of cannabis or marijuana As it is called in that it is the principal offender inthe Europea command but other mind affecting agents such As amphetamines and Benz Edrine were lightly discussed. Although of agent Froehle decline to give figures relating to the number of incidents involving pot in the. Wies Baden area he later explained Tijani it was possible that As Many As 30 percent of Junior High and High school students in Wiesbaden have had som experience with the drug. He quickly added however that this was Only a rough guess and exact figures were not fikely to be obtained. Froehle did Point out How the student were getting the drug which is either made into a crude cigarette or smoke Din a pipe. Most cannabis used by students and 48. Colt an ingenious device constructed by pot puffers permits communal smoking for a Large number of people. Air Force personnel alike is bought i Frankfurt which we consider to be the Crossroads for narcotics traffic in Ger Many. They buy it in places such As these he said As he pointed out slides of bars along Frankfurt s Kaise Strasse a red Light District of some notoriety and another source is from paddlers who sell it at the jazz and Folk concerts held in another part of town. A Short while Back we interviewed20 students who had been involved in a drug investigation he explained and. Was amazed to find that Many of  were making regular trips to Frankfurt and their parents had no knowledge of this. They could t be Liev their child could possibly be involved in  with a touch of irony in his voice he remarked that none of the parents of children involved were at this meeting either. The parents who were there though,.and there was a Good turnout despite miserable weather showed a great Deal of interest in How they could detect and alleviate the use of so called dangerous drugs. The user Larity of Cohol. Safe psychiatrist or. Robert Zondervan left and Osi agent Jeffrey Froehle discuss drug problems with concerned parents at Wiesbaden meeting. Out that Many factions take the Stan that smoking the Weed was Jio worse than the use of ," he said just because some thing might be no worse than an exist ing evil was not grounds to justify its being introduced into  user tends to turn inward said or. Zondervan and he loses his ability to be useful to society. You could Call it an erosion of ambition. He will some times quit studying if he a in school. He ceases to relate to other people and thinks Only of himself. It becomes a mental Crutch after prolonged usage and becomes a world in escapes the realities of Liv mention was made of the effects caused by pot and alcohol tends to make one Belliger ent in some cases or. Zondervan explained whereas the pot user Seldom becomes belligerent or abusive. Usually both though Are alike in that they have trouble getting along with other people and both need something to lean . Zondervan did confirm however that in a hypothetical situation where pot a a alcohol were used by an even number of people the less dangerous group would be the cannabis smokers. The pro pot people Are sometimes right said Froehle but they Don t Tell the whole Story Only their Side and they eave out a lot. Yes the Safe physician continued at first it appears that nobody gets Hurt in a single incident but in Thelong run everybody gets Hurt. Our society could not take what a nation of pot smokers would do to  most cannabis used by students is bought in Frankfurt which we consider to be the Crossroads for narcotic traffic in Germany. Ranged from How serious Are its effects to How can i Tell if my cd jul is using marijuana and at Points turned into rather heated discussions with questions Flash ing Back and Forth to the panel speakers. Strangely however few questions referred to Lon term effects of drug taking. Froehle reiterated that there were arguments being presented on both sides of the marijuana debate and he pointed no cause for hysteria student drug use overrated by Frank Carey a science writer the use of hallucinating drugs by american col lege students May not be nearly us widespread a Many people appear to believe a Brooklyn researcher . Samuel Pearlmay Brooklyn College of the City University of new York said so in describing results of a Survey of 2,270 seniors at his College As to whether they had used any kind of drugs during their under graduate careers. He said it was the largest study of its kind yet conducted. Of the ims students responding Only 78 or 6.3per cent admitted to drug use it any time Pearl nun told ump annual meeting of the american or the opyt Biatek association in Washington. And More than half said they had already Given up such seat the time of the Survey. He said the Survey conducted by questionnaire on an Anonymous basis had obvious limitations. But he added the results gave a moderating for of reality As distinguished from the statistical castles in the air recently built on the rumours of widespread drug use among College  Pearlman Lea up to his report on the findings by say ing growing reports of use of such things As Ltd on Campus during the last three years had led the unwary in the pubic to extrapolate from the Smalt known numbers of College a Jug users to very Large estimates of College  the truth is it a taut tie drug ind Eui patterns of High  trial by or in term of specific institutions Are he Fely unclear at Bis Tim and cannot serve As the basis of program Tor constructive action there have been very few efforts to Survey col lege populations and until such Are soundly developed with student help u la hoped the Curbstone numbers Garni i Jii continue to Drain our social ener-gies.". As another example of finding that the picture May not be As bad As u looks Pearlman cited a previous Survey by the new York county medical society in95 new York City High schools Ana 48 new York stale colleges. T to in each instance to a Pep of the health service and in in of colleges to a representative of the Stu a Juhe Survey grafted., approach. Nevertheless Fiat be study suggested that claim of rank sfelloculnent435,-kijli9itot Tess they a of few ithe question Rire resent Auve of the texan said to Watt was Only major co Cluj there no Ca