Toward Drug Control

HARD ráck, yei; hard drugs, no. Music festivals, yes; drug fairs, no. The two (summer rock concerts and lawbreaking on a wide scale) are incompatible, that's all. Gov. Milliken's appeal to the young people of the state to join in the fight against drug abuse was timely for a number of reasons. If Goose Lake appalled many, many "straights" lik e Gov. Milliken, it also appalled the kids who were merely out for a g o o d time. The pushers at Goose Lake ruined a good thing. The governor's remarks were time ly from a local standpoint, too. Radicáis, young street people and the underground are cooperating, at least for the time being, with the pólice department in an effort to close off the traffic in hard drugs. The anti-drug fight locally and concern in Lansing over the direction rock concerts have taken are the tip of the iceberg. We neëd to do more in the area of drug counseling and in providing help for addicts. A growing problem area is high school age youths. They need to know in the strongest terms about the destructive qualityof drugs. mm