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countered any school age child in Rappahannock using it. The same applies to Cocaine,” said Treanor. “They’re both very expensive. I’m not saying they can’t be had in Rappahannock County but they would be very difficult for any school aged child to get in any quantity.”
Treanor said he suspected marijuana use is “growing slowly...I’m certainly not condining it but I don’t want to overract...I suspect a certain percentage of school age children are using it regularly but I have no idea what that percentage is.”
Eastham asked why estimates on marijuana useare available for the nation as a whole but not for Rappahannock County. While some people maintain that there’s no problem with marijuana in the county, Eastham said he’d been told by a “state police officer” that 75 per cent of the county’s under 30 population ahs experimented with some drug and 50 per cent are regular users. “And he wasn’t talking about alcohol,” Eastham added. “Do you think that’s a completely misleading figure?” he asked Treanor.
“Yes,” the substance abuse counselor replied.
“Is ten per cent too low? Is 50 per cent too high?” asked Eastham.
Krebser said he always asked young people visiting the Rappahanock clinic for treatment of cough or bronchitis if they smoked marijuana and invariably received a negative response from school aged kids. “They're pretty open with me,” he said noting that kids knew he couldn’t relay information to authorities., “There’s much more marijuana use in the age group between 20 and 30. We rarely see it in school aged children,” he said.
Dr. Jerry Martin reported that he’d served six years of duty in the Culpeper hospital emergency room. “I saw no cases of marijuana overdoes, a copule that I thought might be amphetamines and hundreds of alcohol (overdoses),” he stated.
He described the furor over the “drug problem” in Rappahannock schools as "a tempest in a tea pot,” adding that most of the supposed information on drug abuse was “just hearsay.” Martin specifically described Eastham’s report of the state trooper’s remarks as hearsay.
“Well, he knows this county very well,” Eastham
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