Certainly that's what we see in our area as well. Marijuana is as insidious as alcohol.

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That's one area where we differ from the rest of Alberta. It didn't become the huge problem here that it did in other communities.

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The stuff they're smoking today is far more powerful than when I was running around being a hippie. It has gone from one or two per cent THC to 22 to 25 per cent THC.

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It really started to become a problem near Edson about 10 years ago.

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Alcohol is probably the easiest substance to abuse, because the potential is there. It's legal, and it's available.

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