Colorado leads nation in recent cocaine use among adults, survey says...
About 3% of Colorado adults recently used cocaine between 2021 and 2022, according to Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Colorado adults are outpacing the rest of the country in cocaine consumption, according to data released this year by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
According to the agency, in 2021 and 2022, about 3.06% of Colorado adults had used cocaine in the past year compared to 1.95% of adults across the United States.
Colorado topped the list of the 50 states surveyed along with Washington, D.C. Vermont ranked second, with 2.99% of adults having recently used the drug, followed by D.C., where 2.79% of adults engaged in recent cocaine use.
The full article with additional analysis is here.
Both medical and recreational marijuana have been legal in Colorado for about 10 years. Anyone who disavows that it is not a "Gateway Drug" is full of ca-ca.
ReplyDeleteYes and traffic fatalities are up as a result. You can't fix stupid.
DeleteI remember gateway drugs, that's what they told you when you went to the neighborhood "dealer", that's the gateway to the hard stuff.
DeleteNow you go to a pot store. Do they sell cocaine there too? I always thought they should sell sold pot at liquor stores
The ski resorts are probably a huge contributor to their percentage. I worked there for a winter and it was party time every night, seven days a week. Every kind of "recreational" drug was fully available to anyone who wanted to partake.
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