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Re:Rents in Megacities Can't Go Up Forever by humanrebar on Thursday March 23, 2017 @01:17PM (#13941788)
Or maybe logistics are so much better now that even illegal drugs are more accessible and cheaper than before.
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Re:Rents in Megacities Can't Go Up Forever by clock_tower on Thursday March 23, 2017 @06:58PM (#13945106)
That's probably true; but rural areas had alcohol problems before they had drug ones.
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Re:Rents in Megacities Can't Go Up Forever by humanrebar on Thursday March 23, 2017 @07:03PM (#13945141)
And they've always had poverty problems. The underlying point is that I'm sure we cannot boil down substance abuse problems to simple boredom.
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Re:Rents in Megacities Can't Go Up Forever by clock_tower on Thursday March 23, 2017 @09:56PM (#13945953)
Absolutely agreed there! The drug problem in the countryside is new -- really new, 20 years old at the most -- so it must be due to something that's happened really recently.

And alcohol can be coexisted with more easily than hard drugs can. "Meth: Not Even Once" is no exaggeration, but no one in the West except recovering alcoholics has that slogan for drinking.

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