Sam Tepper was my friend...I never knew he had a problem (and yes I saw him wearing short sleeves plenty of times). I now kind of think hey I should have known, but really there were no signs of it and I would add to my knowledge both went off-campus to obtain their product. I never once knew of or heard of anyone related with Reed dealing heroin, that doesn't mean it didn't occur, but it also doesn't mean it was a "problem." Also, two incidences out of say roughly 8000 students if you consider the number who pass through Reed in 4 years is hardly a "problem." Those are facts that the local media in their pursuit of a sensational story ignored. I think we were being targeted because of the notoriety of Renn Fayre, but in reality, Reed has way less hard drug use that comparable institutions much less Portland State.
Dwight Holten is a personal friend of John Kroger. Holten, Schrunk and Diver have done and continue to do a spectacular job of misrepresenting the nature of the drug trade at Reed and in general. They are part of a system that is failing to win the War on Drugs, failing to mitigate it's ill-effects, and failing to serve the American public. Diver in particular has been massively hypocritical about the issue declaring that "drug gangs" are at work in this when nothing could be further from the truth.
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