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Reagan's war on drugs dramatically reduced drug usage

From 1980 to 1985, cocaine use by high school seniors rose:

56 posted on 11/06/2017 12:58:10 PM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")

From 1980 to 1985, cocaine use by high school seniors rose:

Assuming your chart is even correct, how quickly did you expect to see an effect for a policy change? Did you think they happened instantaneously? Doesn't it take some time for a crack down to start effecting behavior?

Your chart shows a decline right after 1980. I can argue that without the crack down, the *NORMAL* and usual increase in drug addiction would have kept rising, just as it did in China.

I can argue that it was Reagan's policies that caused a reversal of an upward trend.

57 posted on 11/06/2017 2:43:14 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")

Monthly drug usage declined almost 100% from 1979 to 1991:

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58 posted on 11/06/2017 4:03:46 PM PST by Kazan

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