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In my opinion, politicians love wars on drugs because that way they can keep the monopoly of whatever they want to sell. If you make the laws, you make somethi

• lowdose 6y ago
  Alcohol beverages was a $1,439 billion market in 2017. There is no movie recorded since the prohibition era without reinforcing this drugs as social acceptable every 30 minutes at least once. https://www.alliedmarketresearch.com/alcoholic-beverages-market/ https://www.alliedmarketresearch.com/alcoholic-beverages-mar...
  • jandrese 6y ago
    > There is no movie recorded since the prohibition era without reinforcing this drugs as social acceptable every 30 minutes at least once. Citation seriously needed. Your link certainly doesn't provide it. Off of the top of my head I can think of countless counterexamples.
    • agustif 6y ago
      1. Thank you for smoking (Go watch that movie) Weed industry in the US (Miraculously legalized in most key states in record times)
    • lowdose 6y ago
      > Overall, 86% of the total 655 movies included at least 1 alcohol scene, with a range of 0 to 617 and a mean of 68 (SD = 87) occurrences per movie. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4035596/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4035596/ If we take this mean and use a movie average length of 1.5 hour it was actually 10x worst than my estimation. Yes you are right it is probably better to take the median. I think it would be pretty easy for a ML pose algorithm to scan the whole Amazon Prime + Netflix archive for a real answer. Especially series like Mad Men are over the top in conditioning for alcohol and cigarette use. I started noticing when I quit smoking how much this was.