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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster
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To: John who wrote (37847)9/15/2010 4:50:42 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (2) of 103300
 
John, please highlight the information that you want us to see... (you seemed to have left out the statistics from my post that you preferred to not see any more. :-)

Like I previously said, rates for 'illicit drug use' depend a great deal upon exactly WHAT drugs are considered, and what period the statistics are covering, and the age ranges in question.

But FBI arrest stats are a very poor proxy for measuring rates of 'illicit drug use' as even the FBI will acknowledge.

As far as particular drugs may go... WHITES use marijuana to a very much greater extent then blacks (more then two to one if memory serves), blacks are reported to have a higher incidence of crack cocaine use, while whites are reported to have a higher incidence of powder cocaine use, higher rates of illegal prescription drug abuse ('Hillbilly Heroin' anyone?) and *much* higher rates for methamphetamine abuse (big in many poor rural areas and among 'skinheads' don't 'cha know).

But when socio-economic effects are factored out (wealth...) and ALL 'illicit drug use' is averaged together, (as you seem to be wanting to do), then the overall measurable differences between 'whites' and 'blacks' fall away into insignificance, into the margin of measurement error.

Asians and Hispanics in America appear to both have significantly lower overall rates of 'illicit drug use' then either blacks or whites do though....
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