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continued the poppy flower is an intri- cate and skilled process which involves careful tim- ing and weather conditions. Farmers in Turkey grown opium as a cash crop to supplement their low in- "comes and sell it to smug- glers at $25 - $35 a pound. The Govt. offers only $15 a pound. Agents of criminal groups in Southern France (Corsi- car) buy opium in bulk from Turkish farmers, transport it across the bor- der into Syria or Lebanon where it is converted into morphine in crude labs; then trucks take it across Turkey, Bulgaria and West Germany into South France where it is converted into Heroin. At all points, in all coun- tries mentioned above, police and army units are alert, a lot of smugglers are captured, but a lot of them get through. The risks are great, but the rewards aye even greater. Heroin is then smuggled into North America, where it fetches a very high price, by international couriers . who fly into Montreal, Tor- onto, New York or other cities with the 98 percent pure heroin hidden in pad- ded vests, false-bottomed + Drugs spreading suitcases, and other devi- CON. These couriers are paid $1.000 for each kilogram (about 2.2 Ibs.) of heroin they bring into North America. The heroin is then mixed with milk sugar or quinine till it is 15 - 25 'percent pure in Canada, and about 5 - 10 percent pure in the U.S.. formed into cap- sules and given to street pushers to sell. To avoid arrest pushers keep the caps in balloons in their mouths and swallow the balloon if caught by an officer. They recover the balloon a few days later in the toilet. Which is why offi- cers grab a suspect's throat and search his mouth when they nab him (or her). The same routine of smuggling is followed from Mexico with one difference. More and more young girls, about 18 or 19, are being used to smuggle it, some- times in a wire cage that makes them look pregnant and has customs officers bending over backward in being helpful. However, an increasing number of them are finding themselves in Mexican jails. Once addicted, a person will do anything to keep his habit going. Addicts .beg, Donna. you're going to have to cutdown on your shopping bill - it's just getting too high! JUG MILK 3 Quart ous aeposit 80° Hint of Maple MAPLE LEAF HAM MAPLE LEAF BACON n.*1.49 ib. 99° PERC. COFFEE mxwon voc 1p, 9 'COCA-COLA HEAD CHEESE pus anvont ff YGF ib. 99° NEW STORE HOURS 7 Days A Week Monday to Saturday - 8:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M. Sunday - 12:00 Noon to 9:00 P.M. "CLOSED GOOD FRIDAY" TRAN'S General Store Prince Albert 985-2862 VR FRR AVR TRS ATOR St as Wo \ alu wien din | Ri PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, April 10th 1974 -- DR. M.B. DYMOND introduced the guest spea- ker, Inspector Armitage at the Fellowship Night held at the Legion Hall steal and become prosti- tutes to obtain enough money to buy a cap. A cap costs about $25 and the addict needs about 6 caps a day. Deprived of drugs, addicts are nervous, shaky, swealy and sick. On drugs they are in a trance, in euphoria, and feeling high. They generally inject the heroin into their veins on the forearm with a hypod- ermic syringe, sometimes in veins behind their knees, under their tongues and be- tween toes -and fingers; some also snort it in through their nostrils. Under the influence, addicts often lose a sense of feeling and find cigarettes have burned through their fingers without their realiz- ing it. Another dangerous drug doing the rounds is cocaine (from Formosa, Java, - Chile, Bolivia and Equa- dor), which is like fresh last week. Bill Barr, fallen snow and causes a 'flash, jolt," when taken, often costing $10,000 to $18,000 a pound. Marijuana and hashish are extremely popular too -- among drug addicts. Marijuana is a weed that grows easily, even in Can- ada. It has a high THC content and is smoked through pipes of all shapes in paper flags, and pictures of President Nixon. It is even baked into cookes and brownies or just chewed. Marijuana addicts are rarely aggressive, generally very calm, sometimes with a bad cough and red eyes. The same with hashish which is more potent. Hash- ish is coming in the shape of a liquid now - a substance that looks somewhat like melted tar. LSD is a colourless, odou- less chemical drug which can make about 300 doses from -just one ounce. The effects last 6 - 8 hours and organizer of the evening is seen to Mr. Dymonds right in background and to the left is Walter Beath, Chairman of the Region of Durham. addicts get hallucinations - some feel they've seen Christ, others walk off fourth floor windows, a few try and stop trafic on 401 and sometimes suffer from flashbacks which can be very damaging. An interesting set of figures queted by the In- spector revealed that opium which is sold by the Turkish farmer at $25. a kilogram multiplies in cost of $5,000 in France to $80,000 in 220 COCHRANE ST. PORT PERRY Montreal or New York and after being formed into caps with about 15 - 25 percent purity the final cost works out to $280,000. Inspector Armitage plea- ded for greater education about drugs. He said every- one - the police, the RCMP and the public - has a role to play in trying to curb the use of drugs. 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