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I'm not sure what you're saying. Are you implying that teenagers in Japan don't do drugs, or just that they don't rebel by using drugs? Because teenagers in Ja

I'm not sure what you're saying. Are you implying that teenagers in Japan don't do drugs, or just that they don't rebel by using drugs? Because teenagers in Japan most certainly do do drugs, both legal and illegal, dangerous or not. It's interesting that you use the phrase "dangerous drugs", I assume you meant to write "illegal drugs". I would argue that making any drug illegal immediately makes it 1000x more dangerous than it is inherently. You seem to be ignoring the fact that many legal drugs are very very dangerous, and the statistics certainly agree with that. Alcohol? Cigarettes? Society definitely tolerates a certain level of danger in their legal drugs. It seems almost totally arbitrary which drugs are legal and which are not, certainly not correlated with a level of "danger".

hasenj 10y ago
I'm under the impression that something like heroin is dangerous while marijuana is not. > Because teenagers in Japan most certainly do do drugs, both legal and illegal, dangerous or not. I'd bet you a lot of money that the problem there is much much smaller than in the US. They have their own problems though. No society is without problems.
- brokenmachine 10y ago
  > It has all to do with communities breaking down and social relations deteriorating. > I'd bet you a lot of money that the problem there is much much smaller than in the US. They have their own problems though. No society is without problems. So what is your point? You're saying community in the US is breaking down, and that's causing drug problems? How do you suggest the US deals with its larger drug problems than Japan that are caused by communities breaking down and social relations deteriorating, if not by dealing with its drug laws?