Publication title: Edmonton Journal
Pages: B5
Section: City/Alberta
Publication date: May 11, 2000
ProQuest document ID: 252794969
Copyright: Copyright Southam Publications Inc. May 11, 2000
Author: Farrell, Jim
Abstract:
The two rave- scene constables and emergency physician Dr. Gregg Schirer said they hoped that by laying out the facts about the drugs and describing what's happened to some city teens, ravers can be dissuaded from using the drugs.
The doctor and the two constables didn't make a dent in the positions of some young members of the audience, who felt the dangers are exaggerated. Their biggest opponent of the evening turned out to be the Internet -- the source of much of the "information" some audience members threw back at them.
Full text:
About 300 people turned out Wednesday evening to hear police and a doctor describe the risks associated with designer drugs commonly found at raves.
Many in the crowd were parents of teens.
"I wish we could get back to the good old days when police said `only dopes do dope,' but we can't," Const. Rick Abbott told the audience during an information session held at Grant MacEwan College.
Designer drugs, such as ecstasy, ketamine and GHB, have become an integral part of the new "techno-music" dance scene and there's no means in sight to end their use, Abbott and fellow
Const. Grant Jongejan told the audience. Instead, the two rave- scene constables and emergency physician Dr. Gregg Schirer said they hoped that by laying out the facts about the drugs and describing what's happened to some city teens, ravers can be dissuaded from using the drugs.
"I don't believe it's possible to safely use ecstasy, ketamine or GHB," Schirer said.
The doctor and the two constables didn't make a dent in the positions of some young members of the audience, who felt the dangers are exaggerated. Their biggest opponent of the evening turned out to be the Internet -- the source of much of the "information" some audience members threw back at them.
"How do you consider it a hard drug when some countries like Spain are doing therapeutic research on it," asked one audience member, who said he'd read of that research on the Internet.
"Alcohol kills more than seven thousand people a year in Canada. Ecstasy kills a handful around the world," one young woman told the presenters as she asked how police and medical authorities can possibly say the rave drugs are as dangerous as cocaine and heroin.
Jongejan described how organized crime groups are battling for control of the drug trade at raves, where many in the audience area still in their teens.
Publication date: May 11, 2000
ProQuest document ID: 252794969
Copyright: Copyright Southam Publications Inc. May 11, 2000
Author: Farrell, Jim
Abstract:
The two rave- scene constables and emergency physician Dr. Gregg Schirer said they hoped that by laying out the facts about the drugs and describing what's happened to some city teens, ravers can be dissuaded from using the drugs.
The doctor and the two constables didn't make a dent in the positions of some young members of the audience, who felt the dangers are exaggerated. Their biggest opponent of the evening turned out to be the Internet -- the source of much of the "information" some audience members threw back at them.
Full text:
About 300 people turned out Wednesday evening to hear police and a doctor describe the risks associated with designer drugs commonly found at raves.
Many in the crowd were parents of teens.
"I wish we could get back to the good old days when police said `only dopes do dope,' but we can't," Const. Rick Abbott told the audience during an information session held at Grant MacEwan College.
Designer drugs, such as ecstasy, ketamine and GHB, have become an integral part of the new "techno-music" dance scene and there's no means in sight to end their use, Abbott and fellow
Const. Grant Jongejan told the audience. Instead, the two rave- scene constables and emergency physician Dr. Gregg Schirer said they hoped that by laying out the facts about the drugs and describing what's happened to some city teens, ravers can be dissuaded from using the drugs.
"I don't believe it's possible to safely use ecstasy, ketamine or GHB," Schirer said.
The doctor and the two constables didn't make a dent in the positions of some young members of the audience, who felt the dangers are exaggerated. Their biggest opponent of the evening turned out to be the Internet -- the source of much of the "information" some audience members threw back at them.
"How do you consider it a hard drug when some countries like Spain are doing therapeutic research on it," asked one audience member, who said he'd read of that research on the Internet.
"Alcohol kills more than seven thousand people a year in Canada. Ecstasy kills a handful around the world," one young woman told the presenters as she asked how police and medical authorities can possibly say the rave drugs are as dangerous as cocaine and heroin.
Jongejan described how organized crime groups are battling for control of the drug trade at raves, where many in the audience area still in their teens.
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