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Halton Hills Outlook published each Saturday by The Hills Herald newspaper of II a I Ion a division of Coin pan limited lerrjel I lam Mull PUBLISHER Don ADVERTISING MANAGER Carl Sinke EDITOR Dave Row Sharon llollin Karen 1 Have Hasting THIN 1 1 tTlll IIUMITMINT Miller Tbeir Outlook Drug awareness quiz on marijuana EDITOR NOTF Drug Awareness Week li Nov 1521 In llMIs and to highlight the occasion The Drug Abuse Committee has ted articles for publication about Ihe dangers of drugs The provides free Information and counselling service In Hills area For more Information call 1915 MARIJUANA DID YOU KNOW This questionnaire is based on Co rim bis Adverse Effects on Health a statement prepared by scientists at he Addiction Research Foundation 1 A heavy dose of marijuana can produce an acute psychosis in Most heavy marijuana users never ixpenenci anxiety 3 Chronic heavy marijuana can lead to lasting changes such as apathy lack of concern for the future loss of motivatnn and even to psychotic and paranoid In most case- the symptoms do disappear when use is discon Youthful marijuana users lender IB mu experience adverse effects on phvsicnl and psychological maturation All recover fully when its is Long term of ex animals to of marijuana tan produce learning impairment and changes in train waves that persist months after the end of usage There is of gross brain atrophy in heavy 9 Marijuana produces much more tar strong tobacco and its effect is doubled when the joint is smoked to very small butt and increased even more when smoke Is held In the lungs for a long Twos a Crowd 10 Marijuana tar docs not contain a higher concentration cancer producing agents than tobacco tar 11 Two or three marijuana cigarettes a day may Ihi same risk of lung damage as a pack of tobacco cigarettes Long term heavy marijuana smoking is not associated with chronic respiratory symptoms as tobacco smoking is 13 En mole animals chronic man juana use decreases the level of male hormone testosterone and causes degeneration In testes and arrested or abnormal sperm production There is no evidence that man smoking Is associated with in termittent failure in ovulation in 15 In animal experiments birth defects appeared in the third generation oiler exposure of the first generation female to minjuana smoke during IS Exposure of pregnml in marijuana smoke produce fetal toxicity and increased dcilh rate around given to pngnmt animals at doses loo low to produce physical abnormalities no changes In hi honor and developmtnl of off spring 18 use of marijuana may interfere wilh of im Lancer Thus combin in haled lamer producing igtnts depression of the immune sskm could mail risk of 111 High concent ritlons of Till in production in bod iclls of complex is pro teins UNA and UNA and also in There mi physical or psychological addition IT W lfr 11 12 17 Twos a Crowd BILL BUTTLE ICUSTOM Ill open it if youll close it Meech Lake Accord not good for disabled a Against the odds PAT WOODE The Accord will lead to Increasing inequalities of op and standards of Imng across this country iicording to Deborah Coyne Assistant Pro fessor of const ilutioml law and public I if Toronto This new is on sions in the At cord tint pro all future con ljiki also lessened rights of ihe disabled in Quebec The of Rights and Freedoms mikes provisions for disabled per sons distinct society now thesi provisions wis to protect the rights of and nallu groups other win left to find fur themselves Im to this Accord before it can come into feet How well rights of the disabled ore protected is now in the hands of the provmciil Indira Sometime ago of how mil nol In fully group if vou on disabled whin start mpln mint This same form of by insurance com palms him been ixtended Th and iinrniplftv me inidiii Mil las tided ill could oul of proposed i nil redirect Us Kir funds It is difficult in mi distill ml primps LOOKING INTO THC I CI I IN I I- Hill in In rt i ItHh Kulhv To run work Jaiiir Tins Kith Nov is is Hook weik which is sit authors who writi for children visiled tin til this 1 i side ill of IS first hit His 1 i Staff I Comment So the provincial government Is supposed to come across with some money for Hallon soaring garbage costs Are we as taxpayers supposed to breath a collective sigh of relief Don we pay taxes the province Region has asked the Minister of the Environment Jim Bradley or million to offset the Region garbage costs Chairman Pete is he expecting The Region has already spent million in quest for a new land fill site The costs of transporting waste New York and Falls along with cost of building a new transfer station a new landfill and Assessment hearing will hike that hill another SIB million Wore the new dump receives an ounce of The reison councillors feel the should foot some of the bill is lengthy Environmental Assfssmint hearing Ihi has to go through Ifallon is the first Region in Ontario to go through in of a dump We re test isi is a refrain often heard it hying through Regions Ilia which was supposed lo cost iround OCX the most mm ihs in will now take and cost over million The Environmental Assessment process forces municipalities to look all Different methods of disposal and different sites Private firms need not go through that procesi It fair enough for Ihe Region to ihe province for money The Ministry s good intentions has led the Region down a long road to a dump Mind you is no wa hearing process i in ill for the ten vi for Ihe dump I At s hope councillors iren fee m loo with themselves if Hi comes up with ml sum 1 ill there me fir for I ump ill in Hills Village Hi I si Wit I Bourn mdireil h If the hed doctor had wanted equal weights have specified equal weights