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Show Reports and rumors prompt Govenors drug report BY NOKEEN OKUBO Staff Writer When numerous reports and rumors ru-mors of 30 percent of Utah high school students experimenting with drugs reached Governor Rampton he decided to set up a committee to review Utah's drug problem. He chose people of undoubted competence and judgment. This committee met with various professionals in the field of drug abuse including doctors doc-tors and researchers. Governor Rampton in a speech cided what kind or how, a to treatment program should be J up shortly after the next lecisia tive session. 8 Governor Rampton said pIesi dent Nixon has called a meeting at the White House on December' 3. Representatives from all fife sattes will meet and determine how the federal government can coordinate with the state govern, ments to control drug usage In concluding the Governor stated that the government can attack but only the people can solve the drug problem. Thursday night at the Lincoln School reviewed seven questions he asked the committee to report re-port on. First he asked to what extent are drugs being experimented experi-mented with in Utah junior highs, high schools, post high school, institutions, and by the general citizen. The committee disproved the rumor that as many as 30 percent of Utah high school students stu-dents were experimenting with drugs. Governor Rampton said although al-though drug usage wasn't as extensive ex-tensive as rumored that there was no Utah school untouched by drug usage. The SLC urban area was cited as having the highest percentage per-centage of drug users with schools along the Wasatch front being next. The most serious aspect of this he said was that it is not getting better, it is getting worse. The second question was, are our present pres-ent statutes adequate? If not, what changes need to be made? Are our present methods of law enforcement adequate? The committee com-mittee recommended that the state's two principle statutes relating re-lating to drug control and their numerous minor statutes be unified uni-fied into one law so there will be no conflict. The Attorney General Gen-eral has been assigned the job of unifying the law. Governor Rampton Ramp-ton said he should be finished by the second week of January. If the bill is considered by the legislative legis-lative budget session tire new statute stat-ute should be on the books by early spring. The antiquated Utah code of criminal procedure which Governor Gover-nor Rampton said is almost unworkable, un-workable, will finally get overhauled. over-hauled. This monumental task has been assigned to a cornrnittee being sponsored by the Utah State Bar Association. In order that their task be finished by the first of 1971 legislative session two more lawyers and draftsmen have been hired. Governor Rampton said the committee was not unanimous on every thing especially in type, kind and duration of punishment. The committee reported that although some organized crime was involved in the drug traffic in Utah it was not extensive. Most of the drug traffic is done by amateurs. Governor Rampton said that in Utah marijuana grows like weed and that some of it is exported to other states. The committee recommendation recommenda-tion that a curriculum on drugs be taught as early as the fourth and fifth grade was sent to all forty school superintendents and the state board of education. In light of the committee recommendations rec-ommendations Governor Rampton Ramp-ton said although he hadn't de- |