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c魏ntiftbi豕uae incr"aed over hundredfold between1962 (20 ,ca"aぇ »n<l1968 ( 2,331cawO. Then曹れhin a yearれne"Iy doubled <4;^15> in1969. Th* forceidenUfied some13，&00 m,rUuana users Umty«»r暴nd estimated thut additional45,000 had, " one time or another, used the dru豕（stated as a conservative estimate). How; ever,ぱonly 8'ふof high schoolstudents an4 25っr of college and univeraity student» were usinff or had the drug, a more accurate totalwould be closer to the 215,000 figure.
In the RX;.M.I，. brief to the LeDain Commission Assistant
Commissioner, Jit G^arHere, stated in19fi9:
Prior to19fi2， isolated cases of cannabis use were encountered l)ut:generiill'y, in'connection whh ente"ainers,and visitors from thelJnはcd States. Although marijuana arres" were effected ,po r» di cully in the m id die 41)， s， its use on a more frequent basis appeared inおon t realonly in19fi2, in Toronto in19fi3 and in Vsn-couver in19r>5. Abuse arose concurrently with the development of tW'hippie sub-culture. .U began in: our .universities and SR，d 'rapidly to high schools. To day .it is most common among theiVto '2& aire group.In addition, it can be found in virtually every subur-ban.eentre,'rej?ardless.of sほe.，，"4 、
The sharp',rise in cannabis, prosecutions was also felt by Mr. Norman Chalmers, Toronto chief of the federalDepartnu、nt of Justice. H。 rさporte(i that befoi'e.メprは,1966, proceediTigs.under the MarcoUc. ControlAct. were limite'a "to one Wednesday afternoons each. week. Ry:,Oct.ober,':l%8， he required thしuse of one ..roo'm. all the time at the New Court House (York County) and a staff of four .full-time prosecutors exclusively 'fW .narcotic cぉes.,に，ノ
On March19,1D7()にRC.M.l，.Comn"sioner W. I a Higgett ap-■peared'before the Commons justiee.comm"teeノand rep6rted. "an 89つr'increase' in. drug offenttv'convictions,last' year and.the. foi"ce— islosing' ground in "forts to check youthful'use of marijuana .and ■hashish." He said the.'force', recorded 5，504 drug co evictions :last 》，r compared, with 2，92«3 the previous year. Most involved
'marijuana or hashish:
• ■■■■In &I etr O.Toronto'-【lnig'arrests .moved just above the-2，700'mark fnlJ>7(l，an increase oflマOっにfromthp19G9 totalof1039， according tcr.K.C.'M.1、..statistics. This was:considered an'&larmir)g' increase compered, to. six yt'ars.ago, when'only 93 drug, charges'were.la id in
Across:Caimda.Tmrcoti(l'convieti.ons.in1D71jumped: mo re. than 5(Kr over1970 to10,137. 0fthese9"( involved the cannabis products.
■■■■■A' ScarborovicrhノProbati6n:Office 'study, of:100: I*re-sentence :Invest 一 t ion cases rcvぉalecT some interesting, facts on: cannabis' convictions in that area during1071.Of theselOOcsses only eight ■Nvenv.ftjmales, and. their mean'age'.was :2(5. Direct cainrmbisconvic， ticms'trgistere'd at only.,five,ヽvfiile indirect.ca-nnabis involvement' '■— 'thosリ：who. 、vcrにusing. o.r':had. used ノcai^nabis' but convicted on • other charges..— ：、vere 20. However, theseノfigures cannot:もe. construed''as representative pattern 'for the 'rest of Mもtro: Toronto,
'In iioojlher issue has North Aiuerican society been more polai:ほed since W.、V. II than'the i"ue of. drug'abuse, by y outいin'general and cannjil)is !ejr&lization..in particular. Marijuanalias-been hail國ed. at once astln、 "Liber;ation of Sin" and the "The Delight Giyer，"
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From a middle-aged motJier of three whois a professional writer ma汁ied to a scientist; 一
"In his hid to solve the 'gener"緣gap， our middle son brought a packet of marijuana to us for a ChHstmas present a yea〖w?丄
I was slightly horrified because I hoped, hke most othe^ parもMs, that my children were not using it.メ was i^ot ?:e?aぉ to try it then. However, wはh the same sort of persuasion that had previously won him the permission to keep alive g5rter snaさも painter his room in odd colours, and study art instead of mathc^ matics， I tried it as did his father, brother^ and sはtゃ. ，
Not too much happened the, first time, except thatチJpid o{ mellowness settled over the family. Wミミデled，lot hsteij^ to music that seemed somehowless forbidding than wheョkids plaved the records previously. The next night we smoked the rest of 'it, and the pkce started swinging. It was really marvellous^ Eveひone man'aged to talk together, about trivialities mainly, theぞe was no tendency to put down anyone. Opportunities tci comゅin
That alone made the experience worthwhile. The family that night was closer together than anytime I can recall.I was greatly surprised to see that what had seemeci to be職ny hours was only an hour and a half. We were allvery happy together, and went off to ourtdoms feeling as if 、veloved each otherゃr the human beihgs weやere, not for.piore p'oints-on a scale of, achievement
For'the 'first.time irt years:my husband and I.talked'for an. hour ormoreabouぃvork，plans, memories, pro blemきand严sible solutions」things wもnever discussed with:each otherぁecjause of the oid scientist-humanist conflict and the rivalries that deyelop between people inconflicting fie】4s of intereきt, The miracle is tりat h e'seemed also., to be a human being,'and not. only a work .machine that ignored people, and particularly his family..I irn1st haye seemed ぉine"at: ore. reasonable to. him'too', as he :di4 .n.ot' 'try -'to 'depre-date. my' in"rぉts...■
The real'nrtiraele'follow:e.d.、vhen. 、ve had intercourse. 'Instead.of the full,perfunctory act itliadbecomも，uれallyiivdulgedinonniy paI't:because it made impossible to get out 'of ...it'the'next nightき sex was:something splendid. All'.the old routine'thrust and .counte1 thru",io get..it.over .with as soon'.as..p.ossiibl.e .disappeared.' The sensation was extノraordinai;yにea(^h ;second.was. a kiゃd'of new adv^en國 tt?re， each, movement an 'expei^ience，' and .the .c'li m axes,-beautiful beyond description. Uヽvas'.far'more-もeautばulthart'.the fitst'weeks of - marriag.e， and .'the' glow -..of/fidfillment.lasted:throughout the next 'day.'It'was both:a.phj^sjでa1and intellectualrediscovery betweeji ^yo.who.knew'each.otfie'rtoo weil'foi'.—toolon'g.".::
,.Iぃis 6nly'hcmest to,report' that'レh—ave experienced..one (ba.d 'trip.: I 'was.: very, dep. reused.ゆput a. variety '''of''matters'.: and my ■husband'suggested-'ぎミmoke. it.was.g poor.: idea,'.as. the depressioin-nt)agnぱied,and:on th&t. p.ccasion.—it. was: ■ impossible:-to .substitute 'go.od:experiences:for. the.:ideas t'hat were, a!rea勿'distiur"g hie. .Tt 'is' much morも'fun :in a g画roup.'.thaii with, only' t、vo: people, :possibly because...there .is more opportunity to...inter a". All the maj—or.sorts of discretioh and codes of conduct se6m to temain intei;t. I douもt ば-people do th in gs: under ■■ marijuana that they.would not.normally :do.'Therもha.s-been' no. tendency'toぞoup se3t， orgies, obscenity,'etc. i!^ my. experience. 'Araongrpeople. WJicv are'less:up-tight about, such tlu'nぞ,it is probably a iiormalpart of it, but oneぁesn，t have to do tぁinきs that are agaiftst his value system unlきss he wants to. W^at.itゃes do is make, people, feelkindly to one. another. It ..permits a/discard inぎof.'the pi'econcep.tions — o, and preju(^ieeさthat we ho!d to one anotKer. U may be va*id to, extrapolate'this.iurt"rもy •laying that one holds prejudices as a kind of self-protection. IIf one drops the prejudiceぉndadmはsthe equality of another, he is in a sense dropping his guard,1eavinghはego u n defendedにIf unaer marijuana, onedoesn't need this ego protection, thenit is reasonable, to regard-.others in.th奋ir 'essentiぉLhuman.ity.:.AiipIying.ttiis concept to. the behavior of' the. youngei:.generation., -one 'b^gins. to und"stand why dばfもrences in class, race, socialposHioii， affluence, etc "hoidlittle inter est a fid are not the source of conflict amoiif them'. If-this :could be proven,. I. might as aぉcioiogist，.reeo.minen( that we put pot in the metfecalof the PentagoiTandKreぉliiv aiu a few-other .'places, too.-.."
FfonTthe motlier of three children,:living', hi a inedium-size< Canadian town:
I V?asn,t able to attend any of your   hearings so thoiight would write'our experience and opiniotis to y6u...
We have a family of three — our oldest daughter aged 21，is married simjelast May. Our son whひis i8 is in first year Science. Our youngest daughter who was17 in October is also in her first yearo f-an. Arts-course.
,0 ariecoinfoftab(le financially, <I would say in the above— average :in卩oirie grroup locaU".
/We enjoyed a happy home. In bringing up our children we weren't stuffy aboutuniinportaはthinぉbut put our stress 011 the basic va!ues oflife — h6nesty， etc. We think we were good parents (by this we are not saying we didn't make any nSsta"s). Our children tellus we are good parents and their teachers "idwe are good parents. We brought them up to express their own opinions, even though it may not always have b^n the迈ost popular opmi(m. In elass discissions they ccmtributed a lot and yet their good sense of values in the Humanities showed thro ugh* •.
In spite of aU the above mentioned we have just gone through two y"rs or so of our own prWate hellin our own family Hfe b€> c塞usミour々.oimprest daughter decided to experiment with dri^
1should mention that allthree of our children are very intelH-ぞnt(above average) so it wasn't ft case that she霄as i詐onurt of th« facts. She didn"t put us into any darx^er'as far as l凰育goes as she D€wr brought胜ny home, just the results.
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