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Home My WebLink AboutA030 - article about Millburn Township, New Jersey ordinance - Page b.The Independent Press,Wednesday,February 14, 1979 First in the ' 'state : ordnanceprohlbft� sale of drug MILLBURN—The Township Committee last week -- in what is believed to.be the first municipal action of its kind in New Jersey -- outlawed the sale and distribution of drug paraphernalia. By a unanimous 5-0 vote, the Township Committee made it illegal to sell, and made it a public nuisance to display with the intent to sell, any appliance designed or ordinarily used to smoke, test, weigh, measure, inject, cook,or sniff an illegal drug. BY ROSLYN BARREAUX AREA — Mention drugs said Sandy Haimoff, Hong Kong and Smugglers and related paraphernalia to president of the Millburn Attic stores in the Mall, Mrs-, 2 o 1. 3 7(v' Geiald'ute Silverman of Conference of Parents and Haimoff said the PTA sent Mil buFn and she'll dive into Teachers. "We are getting it letters to the stores and the 0 arJ her shopping bag and bring out of our town, our area Mall. / / out "power hitters," bongs. and now we want it out of threatening to management n a g e m en t "buzz bombs;" roach clips our state." picket the Livingston Mall if and marijuana and cocaine In just 15 weeks, from the the articles were not taken testing kits. She'll also quote time in October when Mrs. out of the stores by Dec. 15. from magazines on the Haimoff was first made hazards of the so-called ac- aware of the problem at the They were Joined in their ceptable drugs. Livingston Mall, the Con- fight by the PTA/PTO Mrs. Silverman and the ference has gone from threa- Presid6nts Council of Sum- Millburn Conference of i teeing to picket the rnit and the Livingston High Parents and Teachers have Livingston Mall to working School Home and School been a driving force in get- for state legislation. Association. They brought ting drug-related parapher- After investigating paren- their problem to Essex Coun- nalia out of two Livingston tal Complaints about the sale ty Prosecutor Coburn, who MbiII stores and in getting the of magazines and equipment indicted the owners of the Millburn Township Commit- for weighing, testinb, mixing two stores on a public tee to pass an ordinance ban- and storing cocaine, hashish, nuisance act. Both men have ning the sale of drug-related mar""-""' end pills at the pleaded guilty to the charges paraphernalia in the munici- and the drug gear has been pality. taken out of the two stores. Last week Millburtt] Mrs. Silverman, as chair- became the first community man of the Drug and Drug in the state to pass an or- Related Paraphernalia Abuse dinance prohibitinj the Committee of the Millburn operation of stores dealing in PTA, has also been working drug related paraphernalia. with Assemblyman Frederic Union, Irvington and Remington on his proposed Belleville have since in- i legislation to prohibit the troduced similar ordinances. sale of drug paraphernalia in Following the local suc- I the state. ]'he existing law cesses, the PTA is coopera- prohibits only the sale of ting with the Egsex County hypodermic needles and prosecutor and several state syringes, except by prescrip- . legislators working towards tion. Reminglon's bill would banning such sales through- out. the county and state. There are presently such bills in committee in both the Assembly and the Senate. "We started from our home base and worked out," The Indeliendent Press,Wednesday, February 14, 1979 Page 7 continued from page 6 make the sale of drug ac- that everybody knows what's school environment because process the P fA conference cessories to anyone a going on. They say if it's of drugs. ' is s onsorin p g a program 'misdemeanor punishable by wrong then it would have "A large number '` f;O1 March 27 on "The Drug up to a year in jail and a beentopped." students are doing poorly in l Problem Today." Speakers $5,000 fine. Mrs. Silverman has been school because they are 'I at the meeting will be Patrick Mrs. Silverman and Mrs. collecting samples of the stoned everyday,"he said. Donohue, director of the Haimoff both admit that get- drug bear. Spread on the One high school senior Overlook Hospital drug ting the drug paraphernalia table she shows an array of said the new ordinance is treatment program, Richard out of the Livingston Mall pens, lipstick containers, a ridiculous because the kids Roberts, Essex County's as- stores aiid out of Millburn Chapstick tube, some just go to Morristowp or'(he,"I sistant prosecutor-narcotics won't stop the kids from jewelry, keychains and some Woodbridge Shopping Cen- 1 division and Das id Toina, a buying it, but both say that hardware. ter. He also added that the°" former Newark narcotics the PTA conference wants to "Do you think a parent kids are emptying whipped,; detective. use the prohibition as a way would recognize this stuff on cream cans and inhalingthe The PTA is also trying to to awaken parents to what is a kid's desk?" she asked. propellant. It introduce a U.S. Department going on "Some mother would When asked sbout this.: of Health, Education and The open sale of this probably tell the kid to put Mrs. Silverman brought out Welfare book "This Side stuff encourages experimen- those plumbing pieces in his a "buzz bomb," a device toy Up" about drug use and Cation and gives the aura of fathers tool kit." add nitrous oxide from abuse into the school acceptance," Mrs. Silverman The plumbing pieces, whipping cream cartridges to, program. said. She added that she and however, when screwed marijuana to increase the, ' Finally, the PTA con- the PTA are against the together form a hashish pipe. high, ference is now meeting with Dodd bill in the Assembly to The keychains have con- officials of the state PTA in decriminalize the use of celled roach clips apd the "This Is dangerous, noti an effort to help' educate marijuana. pens, which really do'write, only because there is no com parents about the drug and What is being sold'in the become pipes. The Chap- mercially pure N.,O, but one drug paraphernalia problem. "head shops" is not just the Stick tube, with real grape of these things can blow up "This is only the begin- rolling papers and_ water Chap-Stick in the top, un- in a kid's face,"she said, r ning." Mrs. Silverman said. pipes sold in the sixties, but crews to reveal a cocaine A 24-year-old Chatham} "We have focused too long sophisticated devices for stash and tiny "coke" Township man died Januaryt on the supply. We now have smoking, snorting'and hiding spoon. Similar tubes of 6 of an overdose of pure to focus on the demand. We stashes. Blistik and Sea and Ski Lip nitrous oxide. Police are still, have to focus on what is "The ads in the magazines Saver can be purchased for investigating the source of 'creating this market among are aimed at the 18 to 17 year $2.99 to$4.99 at head shops. the 4-foot tank of gas found; the 10 to 17 year olds. It's ad- i olds," said Mrs. Silverman. in the An's bedroom. ; ,vertising, social acceptance M I'hey are making toys for "They're all made to and it's fun." the kids. The kids are saying hide," Mrs.Silverman said. i Silverman em-, phaslted that the problem i$> yt*************** She is particularly distur- not just in Millburn, it is na-, bed by a device called the tionwide. As chairman of the Rip Shifter,"- a car gear PTA conference's drug para-A shift knob with a bowl for phernalia abuse committee, smoking and a long tube so a she has been meeting with. person can drive a car and parent organization;. turn on at the same time. throughout the area. "The cops know they're "We've got to mak stoned," she said. "The people aware of th teacticis know they're storied problem," she said. "Th and can't do anything about kids know, but the adult them." don't." Her concern was echoed Mrs. Haimoff agreed by a Millburn High School "The school is doing a fan- teacher who said that studen- tastie job of teaching th is have boasted to him of,tur- children about smoking. Th ning on in school. second graders know wha "What can the school tobacco smoke can do t do," he said. "We can't even their; bodies. We should d look in their lockers." the same thing for drugs tha tkHe estimated that more they arardoing fcm s king ian 10 `pet ,dent of; the , even,frl the�apn ft ' students at the high school As pIrt ol"thar eddcatio are not coping with their continued on page 7 i �