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Drinking is down for young adults and teens. My pet theory is that Covid broke the chain of party and drinking culture being passed down. (This is entirely spec
by intended 17d ago
Drinking is down for young adults and teens. My pet theory is that Covid broke the chain of party and drinking culture being passed down. (This is entirely speculative, and based on a single chart I saw.)
The relevance to your point being that removal of parental restrictions don't seem to be doing that anymore.
Education is definitely a good idea, but do note any plan that depends on education gives up the next 5-10 years before results are seen. Works great for societies and countries that think that far ahead.
America in particular has an extra challenge, since Big Tech is based here, and threats to revenue streams will be met with immense opposition.
- esseph 17d ago> Drinking is down for young adults and teens. My pet theory is that Covid broke the chain of party and drinking culture being passed down. Weed took its place.
- esseph 17d agoEdit: study above says I am wrong in that it hasn't been a 1:1 exchange of alcohol for thc
- asdff 17d agoYeah theres also way more whippets now
- esseph 17d agoI haven't seen one since 2001. They don't have any of the paraphernalia around here in head shops either.
- asdff 16d agoI see them all the time on the side of the road from people tossing them out of their cars. Massive tanks too like bigger than a 2 liter of coke with all sorts of flavors, even with a hand strap.
- wafflemaker 17d agoIt used to be close to 0 (wasn't a super festival goer though) for me, so anything will feel like way more ppl using n2o. But you're comparing 30-60s dissosiative high that gets fully metabolized in seconds to fucking alcohol - 30 days of poisonous metabolites and 50% of all killed and killers being high on that. And there's MUCH more to mention. Even weed is not as bad as alcohol, though due to symptoms being somewhat harder to spot, the risk of functioning addiction is way higher. And it often ends up as the substance ADHD spektrum folks use for self medication (self administered action/substance aimed at equivaling naturally out of homeostasis neurotransmitter balance in brain). OTOH, two generations ago ppl used alcohol for that instead.
- esseph 17d agoIt's a long time trend around alcohol damage communication. https://news.gallup.com/poll/693362/drinking-rate-new-low-alcohol-concerns-surge.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/693362/drinking-rate-new-low-al...