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The American obsession with drugs is beyond me, one would assume sane people should take as less drug as they can, apparently that's not the case for Murican.

I've heard that US kids would take "smart drugs" to boost their academic performance, if true, that's kind of fucked up.

Let's see what pot will do to Murica in 10 years.

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The US is usually not the first one on lists of recreational drug use per capita. The biggest issue in the US is not recreational drugs but prescription opioids.

We’ve been smoking bud in Murica for longer than 10 years ;)

I've seen more and more harrowing reports about American addiction crysis in the past several years, do you think that has or will have little to do with pot?

Yes it has very little to do with pot. The crisis is of opioids: painkillers prescribed by doctors a little too easily, and scores of people get addicted to these substances.

Not just that--a family of opioids which never should have been approved for general use by the FDA.

It's well documented, the shenanigans that the drug companies used to get these drugs approved, and to get doctors proscribing them for everything.

Many parts of the world are using some variation of uppers, downers, screamers or laughers. Weed has been sacred in indian subcontinent for millennia and is part of their religion (ie Shiva day). Coca is sacred plant for all altiplano population in South America. Mushrooms for Siberian population. Mescaline cactus for Central America. Ayahusca in amazon. And so on.

Update your history knowledge.

I've seen more people doing drugs in the UK than I ever have in the US.

More fucked up than the higher cigarette and alcohol use in Europe?

you might be surprised to find out that drugs are popular all over the world, and not just because people are addicted to them.

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