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Showing Original Post only (View all)Why did street drugs proliferate and get so much into the mainstream in the [View all]
last, say, 50 years? They were around before then, but the perception was that they were only used/dealt by small subgroups and in large cities.
I'm not thinking of marijuana, but of other street drugs, such as cocaine or heroin.
I don't believe it was just because of cultural shifts, either.
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raccoon
Jul 2012
OP
I dunno, maybe they'd rather eat some molly or snort a few lines of whatever...
Frannyfannypack
Jul 2012
#8
They do, they steal it from their relatives before they start stealing from elsewhere
NotThisTime
Jul 2012
#23
We just lost a beautiful young 20 year old to heroin. She committed suicide in prison.
HopeHoops
Jul 2012
#6
Part of The Big Lie campaign. Since we learned of their existence, these drugs have been with us at
Egalitarian Thug
Jul 2012
#7
Coke got popular in the 70's because nobody thought it was addictive since then it just changed
craigmatic
Jul 2012
#13
people are more sophisticated about where and how to get. less judgement over recreational use.
Liberal_in_LA
Jul 2012
#18