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paying its bills through the dose of the fiscal year.2-Local properly taxpayers will not have to assume a larger share of M e lt;i i -C a 1VU. * ui/ KUi vvthat it opens the door to dein-d i v i d u a 1 i z c d medicine . . . This program is not aContinued Page 2, Col. 3Teen Dope Cases Swamp the PoliceBy HAROLD V. STREETER Associated Press WriterThe policeman, the parent and the teen-ager's mind are the three main approaches toCalifornia’s rapidly-rising juvenile narcotics problem.It’s swamping tiie police.Parents have to be convinced.And the big stale effort to get to the teen-ager the full story on marijuana and LSDlast of a Seriesis yet (o roll off Hie press —now set for mid-May.Arrests of juveniles up 140 per cent for marijuana alone — exceeded 5,000 in California last year. The way it’s going, the State Bureau of Criminal Statistics figuresthat by 1071 the total will be between 15,000 and 22,(100 a year.Arrest is admittedly a slop-gap solution. Already it isovertaxing many law enforcement agencies. Orange County, with 1.3 million residents, has only 12 narcotics officers.“We’re not even holding our own, laments Sgt, Robert Reed, of the county sheriff’s narcotics detail. The problem is getting ahead of us.”Enforcement problems form a spider web.We’re retreating from a firm attitude on marijuana and giving users too many breaks, insists Matthew M.O’Connor, head of Northern California’s division of the State Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement.“We need a more solid approach from the courts,” contends Santa Barbara County’sSheriff James Webster, Too many of the offenders are getting off too easily.”Detection, particularly of odorless, colorless LSD, is a, thorny job. Only recently did Southern California's stale
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Oakland, California, US
Thu, May 04, 1967
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