BACK COVER #
- THE USER:
your child or theirs? your friend or you? - THE STUDENT POT PARTY:
what it's really like. - THE SCHOOL:
big or small, East or West -- which ones? - COLLEGE ADMINISTRATORS:
what they don't know and won't know. - THE PROBLEM:
a nationwide tragedy or bungling myopic law-making? Today thousands of students get away with it but there are some unlucky ones who will spend a few semesters in jail. Your roommate, perhaps, or, if you are a parent, your child. Everyone is a victim, the haunted student, the fearful parent, the perplexed administrator, the overworked police -- victims of an unwillingness to face facts. This book sets out these facts with daring frankness.
BLURBS #
"In the heart of every parent lies the hidden fear that this terrible tragedy could come to one of his own children -- as indeed it could."-- Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller
"Dean David B. Truman (of Columbia said . . . that he 'would not be totally astonished' if the number of students who had experimented with some drug or another was as high as one third of the school."
-- The New York Journal - American
"The chief psychiatrist at the Berkeley campus of the University of California says that up to 20 percent of the students there may be smoking marijuana."
-- The New York Times
"A lot of us have been sweeping the problem under the rug, and the rug is getting pretty lumpy.."
-- A university President quoted in The New York Times