In Poland, drugs were way too expensive to be widespread up until the fall of communism. After that, people were generally more aware of how bad drugs are (AIDS

In Poland, drugs were way too expensive to be widespread up until the fall of communism. After that, people were generally more aware of how bad drugs are (AIDS, the overdoses of rockstars etc.), so I’m guessing they were reluctant to even try them out and the drug culture never caught on.