Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
I don't see the link with grass. The rise in opioid addiction in North America has far more to do with incredibly lax prescribing practices (and undue pressure from the drug companies) that created huge numbers of 'legal' addicts who - when the prescribing practices were tightened up - only had heroin as a possible backup.
Bingo.

And the fact that until recently, their gangsters only moved coke. Which meant, at least in the 90s, you could buy crack on any street corner in a major city smack was unheard of.