A reader writes:
There's one other factor in rural drug use. There's nothing to do in small towns. Growing up in New Mexico, we were bored. When you're a teenager, you can only watch so much TV. My best friend and I would get high on meth and drive around all night just talking, but we felt great because we were high. All of my friends and a huge chunk of my high school did a lot of drugs and had a lot of sex. When I moved to Seattle and talked about my past drug experience, my new friends looked at me like I was Tony Montana.
Genuinely puzzled, I asked if they'd ever done drugs, and the responses were generally along the lines of, "No, I was too busy with my theater group/after school job/non-traditional sports team/other socially acceptable activity." Weird as is, I think Seattle's dumbass dodgeball league on Capitol Hill is keeping more kids off drugs than all the efforts of all past Drug Czars combined.
The Dish 