[DiogenesLamp]

Yes, nonaddicted use - just like alcohol can be used by addicts and nonaddicts of that drug.

I have known quite a few people addicted to alcohol. Most can use it without becoming addicted, but some cannot. I have known quite a few people addicted to various drugs. Most who use them become addicted, and only a few can put it down once having tried it.

These things are not at all similar in my own personal experience. Crack will hook people on the first try. Alcohol takes a lot of tries to get to the point of an addiction.

Oh, yes? What standard errors did you calculate for those numbers, and how did you calculate them?

One does not have to calculate when you can see the data points plotted on a chart. You can quickly realize that minor perturbations are just noise. Here is an example. Incidentally it is of opium importation into China.

[NobleFree]

These things are not at all similar in my own personal experience.

Your own personal experience is not randomly selected from the population at large, so can't be validly extrapolated to the population at large.

The "decline" if there was any, is just statistical noise.

Oh, yes? What standard errors did you calculate for those numbers, and how did you calculate them?

One does not have to calculate

So you were talking out your @$$ - got it.