The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • 158

goes on Is actually known i a ntment with 4 July 13,1 969 Half of Drug Arrests Involve Teen Youths userp. The Glendalo Unified School District did this last month when it proudly trumpeted the results of a drug study showing only 6.5 of its students were "known to be using narcotics." Those' are only the students who came to the attention of the police and other law enforcement or welfare agencies. Drug use, more than any other illegal practice, is the lce-bercr of criminal statistics: smoked marijuana at least once, and slightly more than one in ten 11.7 were regular users. These figures correlate well with several other studies made in suburban areas across the country. Applying Brown's figures to the entire county gives a total of about 65,000 youngsters under 18 who have tried drugs and almost 33,000 who are regular users and there won't be more than 6,000 of them arrested all suburban environment," Brown says.

"They've been Insulated from every kind of significant experience that children of previous generations were forced to "Everything Is done for them, and nothing is a challenge; nothing is new. They come home from school every day and disappear into the bedroom. This is particularly true in a middle and upper middle Please Turr. to Pff. 5, Col.

i year. Brown is far more interested, however, in the "Why?" of drug use than' In the "How many?" And he thinks he has at least one possible answer. In questioning students, he found that almost two-thirds of the drug-users (64) sakMhey smoked marijuana either because they were "bored" or bo-cause it "made them fed "These kids have been brought up in a sterile because there is no "vic tim" to report the crime, For this reason, a study made by, Michael IJrown assistant professor of political science at Cal State Fullerton, seems a far more reliable indicator of drug use. Brown is 30, and he looks much younger. He has a deep, golden tan, surfer blond hair that curls down the back of his neck and more importanthe is a political radical who shares youth's only a fraction of what 3 OUR ENTIRE STOCK ON SALE AT 9:30 AM TOMORROW ORANGE COUNTY'S LEADING LIGHTING SPECIALISTS the average offender is dropping as fast as the arrests are rising.

It is now 19. During one recent three-month period selected at random, more than half the defendants who went to court in this county on i drug charges were under 20, almost a third were under .18. There were almost twice as many drug arrests of youngsters under 16 as there were of adults over 50. These statistics can be misleading, of course, since increased drug use has been accompanied by increased police activity and since, until last year, possession of pills was a misdemeanor and police didn't exactly break their nightsticks looking for offenders. Now it's a felony, and as one narcotics officer says: "There's rarely any such thing as a routine traffic stop any more where young people are involved.

We're too aware of the drug problem. You stop a kid for something-speeding, running a boulevard stop, having a bum tail light and you automatically take a good sniff and a quick look around the car for drugs. "We pick up a lot of guys that way that we never would have gotten before. That distorts the figures some when you compare them with a few years ago." Equally distorting, however, is the tendency of many Pollyannas to equate the number of arrests with the number of idofs Continued from First Pag it. tress them for a specific figure, and virtually every one will say "80." That, clearly, is far too high an estimate.

But it is not bo much a deliberate exaggeration an attempt to imply that what so many people do can't be wrong as it is an indication of the nature of the drug subculture in our society. Young drugusers say "almost everyone does it" because almost everyone they spend their time with does do it. In that sense, they are right. To determine what percent of all young people do use drugs, one must seek a more objective source. Arrest statistics are a good st arting point to document the increase.

Three years ago, for example, 70 of all persons arrested for drug violations were repeat offenders; this year, fewer than 40 have been repeaters. That means three of every five arrestees is a first-time offender. In Orange County, only 67 juveniles (under IS) were arrested for drug violations as recently as 1965. One year later, the total was 1.063. Last year, it was 2,790.

Complete statistics haven't been compiled yet for the first six months of 1969, but fragmentary figures indicate the arrests are almost, double what they were for the same period in 1968. By year's end, that would mean an increase of more than 8,000 in the past four years and the age of jf Custom LAMPS SHADES CEMlMCE JL ill modern society. He has used drugs himself, he has worked in the hippies Free Clinic in Los Angeles and he speaks the language of the drug-user. It would appear reasonable to assume, then, that his interviews with almost 1,000 students in seven Fullerton high schools would yield relatively authoritative data. What did he find? Almost one In four students 22.5 had WW DAILY Q-30 TO JJirapcry 8GBB2.

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