European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 3, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Doily Magazine recreational drugs getting busted by Dolores Barclay associated press hat smoke in the Board room May not be from and the White powder clinging to the rims Ofthus aristocratic nostrils int always from eating it should have Conw As Shock though it did allegations arose that some White House aides sed marijuana and Eside Nual spokesman Jody Powell said he had no ledge of such drug use by staff but Many Utt Benass professionals the kind of people nuke of White House staffs Are turning to illicit us Way even More americans use such Legal drugs May and a freaked recreational drugs include m an the Days of acid dropping Long hairs and m marijuana today drug user could tout your your i teacher or even your have Woven their Way into mainstream canting some pillars of the Community to Pri their backs on drug Laws while publicly sup s drug use is not of says Yale Way drug historian David drugs since the wry have been easily purchased and used by what is new is widening control and Way of drug consumption by this Middle is the phenomenon is hard to say still rarely stand up to be but officials around the nation say the for Possession increasingly Are Young and otherwise straight to Hecoax Mitchell deum pot u Ems Day baited of most people Are experimenting with a lot of marijuana is the most widely used illicit says Ira director of George Washington University social research a 1977 Survey done by the group found that 0 percent of High school graduates and 85 percent of College had a iss St tried Armbri Tyoung adults Between the Ages of 18 and 19 per cent had experience with Chan said the Survey noted a steadily increasing tread in cocaine me Between 1971 and because of its High about to per co Caine is a substance used primarily by the it is popular with the so called Jet set and has been snorted openly at new York it once legally was one of the most popular recce we cant guarantee that the spokesman drug usage Dan and professionals has t5 drugs like cocaine snorting quite accepted with that group d noted All of my and in talking about doing it backyard not just big parties and National drugs in the according to historian a member of the White House Council on drug abuse Strat he said it was used by Sigmund Thomas president Mckinley and Pope Leo in Musto drug use was probably More widespread in the 19th Century than it is in you could obtain morphine for whatever purposes you wanted to use in the Only Way you could obtain morphine was through a doctors specifying How and Why it was being Strong drug Laws came about during a period of environmental Reform in the Early at the same time As pure food and drug there is less concern about drugs now than one would expect from the Strong environmental move ment Musto we dont consider the dangers of recreational drugs in the same Way we do the birth control Pill and Sac Cha karst Besteman of the National Institute on drug abuse said Middle class drug use causes serious prob adding people who use pills and booze cannot function properly in the family according to alcoholics More people who use both alcohol and especially amphetamines and now attend its a members Are 30 percent professionals and there also is a Small segment of american society that uses heroin without becoming there Are Many such people around who Are Able to control its use and who use it As a recreational drug of said Norman Zinberg of Harvard medical who is studying 158 Boston area week end warriors to learn How they avoid heroin of oar m percent would be considered Middle class col lege and ugh school said the clinical psychiatry seventy percent Are men and m percent they Are primarily Zinberg said the study subjects have been using heroin for at least three at least 10 times yearly but no More than once a one in his sos has used the narcotic this Way for 20 in contrast to they Are very concerned about being discovered and Are very meticulous with instr he most of the group use it they have a lot of specific notions about Bow it should be used so dependency int there very respectful of the drugs Power and therefore Only inject a Little bit at a August 1978 the stars and stripes Poge 13