Stavros
10-12-2011, 08:40 PM
In August I read the report linked below, about the radical drop in the number of drug-related murders in Washington DC, and a more general decline in gun crimes. The article indicates that some attribute this to more zero-tolerance policing in bad neighbourhoods; to longer prison sentences; but some to a genuine decline in the use of crack-cocaine. A generation has grown up that does not want to live on the margins of society in a perpetual frenzy of behaviour of the kind that led to Washington DC recording 482 murders in 1991, whereas last year it was 131. Thus, turf wars and other drug-related issues that sparked shootings has declined significantly.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/21/america-serious-crime-rate-plunging
I don't know much about drugs, I smoked dope when I was in my early 20s when I could afford it, but was not a smoker and did not enjoy the experience of smoking itself, although marijuana be it grass or hashish is a fond memory. Someone I know who used to know a reasonably well-known Filipino ts escort in London told me she couldn't go a day without snorting a line; and I understand drug-use at various levels is common in Thailand, I know there is widespread use of marijuana in the Philippines; and one of the Brazilian ts in Joey Silvera's films is toked up as she is being blown -but cannot verify the extent of drug-use among transexuals i general, although it does figure a lot in Last Exit to Brooklyn.
when I was young, I had the opportunity to try acid, and uppers and downers, but used to work in a hospital and saw enough people overdose, and a few die from heroin in particuar, to know that there are limits to what the human body can take, and I did not want to end up like that.
Is the pattern of drug use changing, among older, among younger people?
I would welcome a decline in crack-cocaine use as it struck me as a wild behaviour altering substance; but I am puzzled with cocaine which I have never tried. On the one hand reports from the gang wars in Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala go on about cocaine being worth from between $13 billion to $48 billion a year in the USA; on the other hand with so many people in the US losing their jobs and wages not rising for so long, I wonder if there hasn't also been a decline in cocaine use in the USA; and with it a decline in profits.
If most drugs we know were legalised, would something else become the 'exotic', illegal drug of choice for people who want to live on the edge?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/21/america-serious-crime-rate-plunging
I don't know much about drugs, I smoked dope when I was in my early 20s when I could afford it, but was not a smoker and did not enjoy the experience of smoking itself, although marijuana be it grass or hashish is a fond memory. Someone I know who used to know a reasonably well-known Filipino ts escort in London told me she couldn't go a day without snorting a line; and I understand drug-use at various levels is common in Thailand, I know there is widespread use of marijuana in the Philippines; and one of the Brazilian ts in Joey Silvera's films is toked up as she is being blown -but cannot verify the extent of drug-use among transexuals i general, although it does figure a lot in Last Exit to Brooklyn.
when I was young, I had the opportunity to try acid, and uppers and downers, but used to work in a hospital and saw enough people overdose, and a few die from heroin in particuar, to know that there are limits to what the human body can take, and I did not want to end up like that.
Is the pattern of drug use changing, among older, among younger people?
I would welcome a decline in crack-cocaine use as it struck me as a wild behaviour altering substance; but I am puzzled with cocaine which I have never tried. On the one hand reports from the gang wars in Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala go on about cocaine being worth from between $13 billion to $48 billion a year in the USA; on the other hand with so many people in the US losing their jobs and wages not rising for so long, I wonder if there hasn't also been a decline in cocaine use in the USA; and with it a decline in profits.
If most drugs we know were legalised, would something else become the 'exotic', illegal drug of choice for people who want to live on the edge?