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JUVENILE DELINQUENCY 19 I might say that in our study we went to San Quentin Pentitentiary. We went down to Chino to the correctional institution for men, and we talked to a number of addicts and peddlers, and from them we learned this one important fact: that most men who were addicts and peddlers told us that if something had been done for them when they were young, when they first started their addiction, when they first started marihuana—because that seems to be the pattern—they take very innocently a cigarette of marihuana and maybe a few more, and gradually they want something stronger, and end up as an addict. Chairnian Kefatjver. Many times thinking it is smart to smoke marihuana ? Mr. Daly. That's right. That's right. It is done either as a dare or because the party is inquisitive, one or the other. Rarely is it just a desire to smoke marihuana. However, we found tliat through the testimony given to us by the various addicts, it seemed to be rather universal that if something had been done at that stage of their addiction^—other words when they were 17,18, and 19—they might have prevented going on to the ultimate end that we saw when w^e saw them u]3 in such a place as San Quentin. So this new bill which I have just referred to, 2334, is going to set up for the first time a treatment facility, and it is aimed particularly at the juvenile. The treatment facility will work substantially as follows: If a boy or girl is arrested for narcotic addiction he may go before the court and on being convicted he may be placed on probation, and then as a term of that probation he can be committed to a treatment facility. Those treatment facilities will be operated by the State in various parts of the State, and we believe that through the medical help of psy- chiatrists and trained conscientious personnel who will be assigned to that work, that we may prevent a lot of these youngsters from going on into the more serious forms of addiction. I just want to say that to you. Chairman Kefauver, Well, I think that's a wonderful thing to do, Mr. Daly. We have at Lexington, Ky., as you know, the Federal Hos- pital for Narcotic Addiction. Mr. Daly. Yes. Chairman Kefauver. Where many young people who do become ad- dicted are treated, and many of them are cured and get over their ad- diction. Our experience has been, in the first place, that this is not known of and it is not used and that is generally as it should be, and in the next place it is in the eastern side of the United States. There is no similar Federal facility in this part of the country. I think this treatment facility that you are talking about will do much to restore life and health to many, many young people, and I hope the bill passes. Mr. Daly. It has passed. Senator, and I believe is on the desk of the Governor now for his signature. There is one thing that I would like to comment on very briefly because I am intensely interested in it, and that is the effect wliich alco- Jiolism has on deliciuency. When I was Avith Mr. Brown as assistant district attorney we had a problem of some 85 perceiit of all arrests in the city and county of San Francisco coming directly, shall we say, from the abuse of the handling of liquor. Mr. Brown asked me to make