Re:Uhh... (Score 1)

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?