Last month the results of a government-sponsored study by the University of Michigan called Monitoring the Future reported a broad decline in drug use among young people since 2001. This included a 24 percent drop in the overall use of illicit drugs. There was one exception he said: abuse of painkillers. But, one important metric that wasn’t mentioned, and that stubbornly resisted the downturn, was the use of cocaine. According to data from the group that produced the report, the percentage of both black and white 12th graders who confessed to using cocaine in the past 30 days has essentially stayed flat since 2001. The major difference is that white usage outweighs black usage 4 to 1. (If you take a longer view back to 1991, when cocaine usage bottomed out following the outrageous ’80s, usage among white 12th graders since then has nearly doubled, while usage among black 12th graders has fallen a bit.)
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r-gamers! LOL or is that k-gamers?
01 22 09
Well I found that out when we moved to Modesto from East Oakland all those years ago. They send the white kids to rehab and criminalize the Black kids.This is nothing new. Sadly.
and weed too - been like that for past 10 yrs
[quote]They send the white kids to rehab and criminalize the Black kids.[/quote]
Who is "They"?
Might it be that the homicide rate associated with the drug trade by Blacks is higher?
Old news, but I would be curious as to the scientific reason why?
Cuz it's not just coke, but lots of psychoactive drugs including psychiatric meds, etc etc...
Dump out any White girl's purse and you will likely find a pharmacy counter of antidepressants, etc etc.
I believe some of this may be connected to escapism from child abuse and molestation, which does seem vastly higher amongst White families. But who knows why else? Any other theories?
Easy explanation. Black kids are under a different level of scrutiny that increases the cost of recreational drug use.
In other words, where white kids have no consequences black kids know whats waiting for them...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-JjldxU-pA&eurl=http://www.byroncrawford.com/2009/01/fleece-booty-warrior-johnson.html
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