Alcohol is probably the easiest substance to abuse, because the potential is there. It's legal, and it's available. |
Certainly that's what we see in our area as well. Marijuana is as insidious as alcohol. |
It doesn't matter where you are, there's a core base population of 12 to 20 per cent who will abuse drugs or alcohol. |
It really started to become a problem near Edson about 10 years ago. |
That's one area where we differ from the rest of Alberta. It didn't become the huge problem here that it did in other communities. |
The stuff they're smoking today is far more powerful than when I was running around being a hippie. It has gone from one or two per cent THC to 22 to 25 per cent THC. |