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How did boomers use more drugs? Since the boomer generation we had a crack epidemic, 2 heroine, 1 of those mixed with prescription opiates, and a non stop meth

by tayo42 6y ago

How did boomers use more drugs? Since the boomer generation we had a crack epidemic, 2 heroine, 1 of those mixed with prescription opiates, and a non stop meth problem. Marijuana is legal in a bunch of states now. Psychedelics are having a revival. Mdma didn't even exist until recently and there have been two waves of rave culture

rayiner 6y ago
See: https://mobile.twitter.com/adam_tooze/status/1213165630326738945 https://mobile.twitter.com/adam_tooze/status/121316563032673... > At their peak in 1980 illegal drugs accounted for 5 % of total personal consumption expenditure in US. An astonishing figure corroborated by contemporary estimates that cocaine sales peaked at $35bn in 1980. Rachel Soloveichik @BEA_News
- tayo42 6y ago
  Those comments in the thread have interesting points. 350/g in 1980 compared to what it costs now. (I used to pay 60/g around 2010) https://www.businessinsider.com/us-cocaine-prices-change-2016-10#while-cocaine-prices-in-the-us-have-varied-some-year-to-year-they-have-held-relatively-stable-since-declining-from-highs-in-the-1980s-1 https://www.businessinsider.com/us-cocaine-prices-change-201... Thinking about it more, I guess you need to clarify if a boomers today use more drugs or was drug use higher in the 60s,70s,80s then in 00s and 10s. Other stuff I searched suggested boomers in the 10s are hit hard by opioids
  - aksss 6y ago
    > boomers today Drugs are increasingly unkind to the bod the older you get, so I’d imagine it’s the latter. For the record, I paid about 125/g in the mid nineties. I’m sure someone’s made a chart of this somewhere. I remember High Times magazine or Cannabis Culture used to have a spot price table in most issues based on numbers submitted by their readership. Would make an interesting graph. I don’t tend to trust LE valuations of drug prices because their incentivized to inflate them on capture and deflate them on selling risk.
lstodd 6y ago
MDMA was everywhere since 1970-s. What 'recently' are you talking about?
- tayo42 6y ago
  i dont think it was recreational until the 80s but yeah looks i misremembered, it was invented in the early 1900s

by tayo42 6y ago

rayiner 6y ago

See: https://mobile.twitter.com/adam_tooze/status/1213165630326738945 https://mobile.twitter.com/adam_tooze/status/121316563032673... > At their peak in 1980 illegal drugs accounted for 5 % of total personal consumption expenditure in US. An astonishing figure corroborated by contemporary estimates that cocaine sales peaked at $35bn in 1980. Rachel Soloveichik @BEA_News

tayo42 6y ago
Those comments in the thread have interesting points. 350/g in 1980 compared to what it costs now. (I used to pay 60/g around 2010) https://www.businessinsider.com/us-cocaine-prices-change-2016-10#while-cocaine-prices-in-the-us-have-varied-some-year-to-year-they-have-held-relatively-stable-since-declining-from-highs-in-the-1980s-1 https://www.businessinsider.com/us-cocaine-prices-change-201... Thinking about it more, I guess you need to clarify if a boomers today use more drugs or was drug use higher in the 60s,70s,80s then in 00s and 10s. Other stuff I searched suggested boomers in the 10s are hit hard by opioids
- aksss 6y ago
  > boomers today Drugs are increasingly unkind to the bod the older you get, so I’d imagine it’s the latter. For the record, I paid about 125/g in the mid nineties. I’m sure someone’s made a chart of this somewhere. I remember High Times magazine or Cannabis Culture used to have a spot price table in most issues based on numbers submitted by their readership. Would make an interesting graph. I don’t tend to trust LE valuations of drug prices because their incentivized to inflate them on capture and deflate them on selling risk.

lstodd 6y ago

MDMA was everywhere since 1970-s. What 'recently' are you talking about?

tayo42 6y ago
i dont think it was recreational until the 80s but yeah looks i misremembered, it was invented in the early 1900s