Drugs At Parties

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31306, 28 February 1967, Page 18

Drugs At Parties

(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, Feb. 27. Parties at which drugs of the “pep pill” variety were distributed among guests were not uncommon in New Zealand, a senior spokesman at national C.LB. headquarters, Wellington, said today. There was also no doubt that exclusive private parties for marijuana users were being held in many cities here, he

said. The spokesman was commenting on a London report that more than 30 people were arrested and hundreds of others questioned in Britain’s biggest drug round-up, at the week-end. Police evidence indicated that pep pill parties in New Zealand were not organised as such.

The drugs were usually incidental to an ordinary party. Usually “some

idiot trying to be clever” produced a supply of pills and handed them around to friends and other guests, he said. The drugs used were in all cases of the stimulant variety, or marijuana In the form of cigarettes.

Marijuana parties were considerably different from the pep pill parties. In the case of marijuana the gathering was much more exclusive, said the spokesman.