damnit, stop telling me about that, I needed those surveys to back up my smug assertion that the majority of americans want the war on drugs ended... well, it's still possible they do (tho probably not likely), but now I can't have those cool moments when I'm walking through a crowd and thinking "y'know, most of the people around me are dope smokers, or used to be anyway." ahh well.. among my crowd in high school, I'd say drug use was something like maybe 60%, but nowadays most everyone I know is (or at least was) a drug user. still, sucks to have my head pulled outta my ass wrt drug usage figures...
I've read Barry McCaffery (sp?) yelling about how our children are a bunch of greasy dope fiends... according to the DEA, 47% of highschoolers have tried drugs by the time they graduate. Now, I donno about you, but if some guy said "Hi, I'm from the DEA and I'm conducting a survey. Do you take drugs?" you can be DAMN sure I would say "no fucking way", even if I'd just swallowed nine hits of white blotter and had needle tracks so bad it looked like chicken pox. Even if the guy lied and said he worked for Good Humor Ice Cream or something, I *still* wouldn't say yes to any drug survey. Most ppl I know wouldn't either, drug users or no... so add, say, another 20% for those of us who perhaps partake but aren't gonna admit it to The Man, and voila, there's your majority. (There've also been studies in the past that concluded the numbers were more like 65-70%, but I can't think of any offhand. The McCaffery study I saw just the other day, but I'm too lazy to get an URL for it. Go look at the DEA homepage.) I'd say the rate is more like... maybe 90% among the people I know, but my crowd is certainly not a statistically significant random sample of American citizens. If it seems like you don't know *anyone* who'd smoke that evil dope, then your crowd probably isn't either. There's quite a few billion dollars' worth of drugs out there, and *somebody* is taking them, no?
actually, it was ketamine (1/8th the normal dose) in the sense dep tank because he wanted to hallucinate but was worried that LSD would permanently modify his brain. See "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"... swell book, btw.;)
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I can just see it now:
Brandon: "Beamer me up, Mr. Steve."
Steve: "She's runnin' outta gas! She canna hold!"
Brandon: "You'll have to pump some gas. It's our only hope."
Steve: "Damnit Jim, I'm a yuppie, not a mechanic. I canna pump my own gas!"
um, no, he died of cancer of the toe (of all things). he got cancer because he left a soccer injury untreated.
damnit, stop telling me about that, I needed those surveys to back up my smug assertion that the majority of americans want the war on drugs ended... well, it's still possible they do (tho probably not likely), but now I can't have those cool moments when I'm walking through a crowd and thinking "y'know, most of the people around me are dope smokers, or used to be anyway."
ahh well.. among my crowd in high school, I'd say drug use was something like maybe 60%, but nowadays most everyone I know is (or at least was) a drug user. still, sucks to have my head pulled outta my ass wrt drug usage figures...
I've read Barry McCaffery (sp?) yelling about how our children are a bunch of greasy dope fiends... according to the DEA, 47% of highschoolers have tried drugs by the time they graduate. Now, I donno about you, but if some guy said "Hi, I'm from the DEA and I'm conducting a survey. Do you take drugs?" you can be DAMN sure I would say "no fucking way", even if I'd just swallowed nine hits of white blotter and had needle tracks so bad it looked like chicken pox. Even if the guy lied and said he worked for Good Humor Ice Cream or something, I *still* wouldn't say yes to any drug survey. Most ppl I know wouldn't either, drug users or no... so add, say, another 20% for those of us who perhaps partake but aren't gonna admit it to The Man, and voila, there's your majority. (There've also been studies in the past that concluded the numbers were more like 65-70%, but I can't think of any offhand. The McCaffery study I saw just the other day, but I'm too lazy to get an URL for it. Go look at the DEA homepage.)
I'd say the rate is more like... maybe 90% among the people I know, but my crowd is certainly not a statistically significant random sample of American citizens. If it seems like you don't know *anyone* who'd smoke that evil dope, then your crowd probably isn't either. There's quite a few billion dollars' worth of drugs out there, and *somebody* is taking them, no?
actually, it was ketamine (1/8th the normal dose) in the sense dep tank because he wanted to hallucinate but was worried that LSD would permanently modify his brain. See "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"... swell book, btw. ;)