Drug use up for boomers, down for teens

AP via Yahoo ^ | 9/7/2006 | KEVIN FREKING

[Peach]

Once you have to go after how someone looks, where they were born, where they live, etc....you have lost the debate.

This presumably spoken with a straight face by someone who has condemned an entire generation of baby boomers. ROFL. Pathetic doesn't begin to explain your posts.

[yellowdoghunter]

If I want to know what you think, I will ask your leader.

[Peach]

A typical comeback by someone who doesn't have the intellectual ability to defend her own hypocrisy.

[ansel12]

I just didn't know such childishness would show up on FR.

For what it is worth in my county trailers regularly go for more than $300,000.00 and I've seen them break $900,000.00.


What really troubled me when I read all the posts is that a couple of people contributed nothing to the subject at hand, they simply tried to annoy you enough to push you off the thread, it was a sharp reminder that on the computer we are forced to mix with people that we could avoid in a actual, real life situation.

[yellowdoghunter]

I know what you mean. I would NEVER, EVER, comment on how I thought someone "might" look in life, what they live in, etc....it is just something that is so tacky and shows no character. But it is just three or four of them, so they are easy to ignore but sometimes fun to play with.

I just hope that most people realize, and I know most do, that it doesn't matter where or what you live in, we are all the same in God's eyes and there is bad in every group.

[Tamar1973]

I'd be interested to know how voting patterns break down among the boomer drug users.

I'll wager that you could make a pretty good guess.

If they're using that much dope, they're probably are too stoned to find the polling place on election day anyway.

[Tamar1973]

My mother the boomer:

1. Did drugs 2. Married multiple times 3. still has mental problems

I am so thankful that she was a mess otherwise I might have turned out to be a liberal.

LOL. My mother's the same except she's never been married and my maternal grandparents (FDR democracts) raised me. I rebelled and went to the "dark side" largely because I couldn't wrap my head around my grandmother's pro-choice stance.

[A CA Guy]

Irresponsible nimrods who are probably too addicted to stop IMO.

[Tamar1973]

We should probably start a support group, LOL!

[Know your rights]

4.4 percent of baby boomers ages 50 to 59 indicated that they had used illicit drugs in the past month. [...] Meanwhile, illicit drug use among young teens went down for the third consecutive year — from 11.6 percent in 2002 to 9.9 percent in 2005.

"Rarely have we seen a story like this where this is such an obvious contrast as one generation goes off stage right, and entering stage left is a generation that learned a lesson somehow and they're doing something very different," said David Murray, special assistant to the director for the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

So the ONDCP approves of teens using drugs more than twice as often as Boomers? Interesting.

[robertpaulsen]

"So the ONDCP approves of teens using drugs more than twice as often as Boomers?"

So, 9.9 percent of those 12-17 is more than double 4.4 percent of those 50-59? Got the math to support that claim?

Illicit drug use among young teens went down for the third consecutive year, and you think the ONDCP is celebrating the percentage and not the decline? Give you lemonade and YOU make lemons.

[Know your rights]

So the ONDCP approves of teens using drugs more than twice as often as Boomers?

So, 9.9 percent of those 12-17 is more than double 4.4 percent of those 50-59?

Obviously I meant proportionately twice as often, silly little man.

[robertpaulsen]

"Obviously I meant proportionately twice as often, silly little man."

If the raw size of the two groups is the same, then citing proportions has some significance when comparing the two.

You have no idea what you're tallking about.