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I've being following this Ritalin thought.
Let's keep in mind that, as far as I know, our only source of the idea BS snorted Ritalin comes from just one person quoted in a newspaper article. And he admits he didn't even witness it first hand.
From the way the article is written, it sounds like the 'teenager' is just repeating something he's heard happened at the party. Otherwise he wouldn't have said "If it's true..."
Suddenly, behaviour that some who knew the teens had dismissed as simply odd or unsettling has taken on a grave new meaning. A teen in Port Alberni described hanging out with Mr. Schmegelsky and Mr. McLeod while they camped at Sproat Lake this spring, and said Mr. Schmegelsky was wearing a swastika armband and military fatigues, and using a replica Nazi knife to crush Ritalin tablets and snort them.
“I’m so dumbfounded that Kam would be a part of this,” said the teen, whom The Globe and Mail is not identifying by name because of his youth and his concern about being associated with Mr. Schmegelsky. (The Globe conducted the interview with the knowledge of the teen’s father.) “If it is true, I’d be surprised about Kam, but I would not be surprised about Bryer. Let’s just put it this way, he was a little bit [messed] up in the mind.”
I'm reserving judgement on how much weight I give to this 'snorting Ritalin' statement.
Just one person in Canada has mentioned someone had told them this story about Byron and Ritalin at a party and then it's mentioned in a national paper and taken as the truth and ran with...
It makes me wonder.
Edited to add source:
Searching for answers: Sense of unease lingers in B.C.’s isolated north as police hunt suspects in remote killings
Just my opinion, but I the way I read this when I first saw it is a little different; the "if this is true..." part wasn't about the Ritalin snorting incident (that seems to be given as a first hand account) but rather regarding the killings.
I'm not surprised that, even if many of their peers witnessed such behavior as this one claimed, they would be reluctant to come forward - especially if they too were engaged in such behavior or similar. On the other hand, having only one anonymous witness makes it very, very plausible to doubt the veracity.