EX-ADDICT WARNS OF CRYSTAL'S DEADLY ALLURE

Lieutenant-Governor To Be Patron Of Crystal Meth Society Of B.C.

Morgana Glass thought she had big problems at age 15. When she got
hooked on crystal meth, those problems got a lot bigger.

The former army cadet and soccer player was sitting on the floor of
some guy's basement one night when she realized life had become as
bad as it could get.

"I didn't live anywhere, I didn't own anything and I was just
released from the cop shop," said Glass, 21, in an interview. "Now
I'm getting my life back together, working every day, striving to go
to university and have a family. I work really hard at that every day."

Glass, who speaks to students about her experiences, is just one part
of the Crystal Meth Society of B.C.'s many programs and successes.
The charitable group was formed in 2005 by Mark and Ruth McLaughlin,
Marilyn Erickson and their colleagues and friends.

Since its inception, the society has presented its Meth Info Show to
17,000 students, held community meetings, hosted conferences and
established a program where nursing students provide support to
addicted people on the street at night.

At a presentation at the Coast Victoria Harbourside Hotel and Marina
last night, the provinceide group announced B.C. Lt.-Gov. Stephen
Point will serve as patron of the Crystal Meth Society of B.C.

That will further increase the profile of the group, currently taking
its message and programs to civic and community leaders all over B.C.
and throughout Canada, said Mark McLaughlin. "We have been invited to
Ottawa to discuss our programs with the Ministry of Health, the
Ministry of Public Safety and the RCMP [in December]," he added.

Six years ago, Glass didn't know what crystal meth (methamphetamine) was.

A Grade 9 student at Claremont Secondary School at the time, Glass
had been educated to stay away from cocaine, heroin, acid and ecstasy.

Offered meth at a party, and too embarrassed to refuse and curious
enough to experiment, she tried it. "I said no at first. I hadn't heard of it."

The first time felt good. After a few more times, she noticed she was
more confident, more energetic, and enjoyed school more. She thought
it would help her excel.

But it didn't take long for the highly addictive substance to fuel
her downward spiral. "I tried it a few times when I was 15," she
said. "Then I was using all the time when I was 16."

She stopped playing soccer, barely went to school, and eventually
dropped out of Grade 10.

"You do a bunch of drugs and dig a deeper hole than you were in."

Sleep-deprived, skinny, sickly and very depressed, "I was not happy at all."

Glass tries to describe this deep depression to the scores of
students she speaks to.

She's been off drugs for eight months, earned her Grade 12 diploma
with honours at the Individual Learning Centre and is working full time.

"Kids will mostly listen to my experiences," Glass said. "My family
life was not horrible, it was just complicated ... If I kept going to
school, playing soccer ... I would have been able to face those problems."

Glass said no one, including herself, would have believed she could
become a drug addict. She was doing "wonderful things."

She emphasizes to students that crystal meth -- often disguised as,
or hidden in the widely available hallucinogenic designer drug
ecstasy -- is stronger than they are.

"I let them know it's a very scary drug," she said. "They will
usually listen to how I feel."