[ASOC]

LOoL -you can pick your nose but not your in-laws.....

We have a term used locally “Valley Trash”

The stnading joke is if the cops radied every home in the vally, the ones without a meth lab would have a grow operation.

If you hadn’t heard, grass is legal in AK under state law, up to 4 oz in posession for ‘personal use” IIRC.

Oddly, while drug use is a major problem, it pales to the problems caused by alcohol abuse.

[steve-b]

So, when is the wedding, anyhow?

[Fee]

When was the last time a liquor store owner attacked another liquor store owner with automatic gunfire over territory? I’ll take legal booze over illegal drugs.

[redhead]

"We have a term used locally “Valley Trash"

PROUD TO BE VALLEY TRASH! LOL! I wish I had one of those cool teeshirts...

[redhead]

"Oddly, while drug use is a major problem, it pales to the problems caused by alcohol abuse."

This has always been the case. I used to be on the Mental Health Board in Valdez, and the major problem we dealt with was alcoholism. At one point, I believe the statistics went something like this: "Roughly speaking, ten percent of people in the United States who drink are alcoholics. In Alaska, ten percent of the population is alcoholic." Talk about scary.

[wbill]

Oddly, while drug use is a major problem, it pales to the problems caused by alcohol abuse.

I saw a special on TV about a small Alaskan town that described itself as a "Drinking Village with a Fishing Problem".

I still laugh when I think of it.