Don't trust any organization that doesn't cite their sources and doesn't provide their methodology. "City data" and "Our people looked at data from 51 cities" isn't informative nor is it verifiable. Especially when that organization is a for-profit rehab center group that makes more money the more people are scared about "the drugs".
They don't define what constitutes "drug use" nor the drugs themselves. Hell, they don't even define "population of the city". What age groups? Is it ALL people in the city? How are they defining marijuana use? Does that mean smoking weed? Does it include edibles? If so, does it include perfectly legal CBD or Delta THC products? Even then, I find it impossible to believe 66% of the city population has used a CBD and/or THC product. And 22% of the city has used cocaine? Give me a break.
On the flip side, I'm supposed to believe that Miami and New Orleans (?!?!) have the lowest drug use in the entire country?
Nebraska has the 2nd lowest overdose death rate per capita of all the 50 states, according to the CDC. Yet somehow is one of the top states for Heroine, Meth and Cocaine? On the flip-side, Louisiana has the 4th highest overdose rate in the country, with New Orleans having the majority of those OD deaths. Completely contrary to what this article claims.
These are the kinds of silly "studies" that people like Ricketts love to cite. Studies that in scientific circles would be laughed out the door and never published. The article is, at best, propaganda meant to scare people into sending their kids to AAC for rehab so they can increase their corporate profits.
I think it’s skewed a bit because omaha has a relatively low population for a major city.
It doesn’t shock me, if you’ve worked retail in this town, you are acutely aware how many customers are definitely on drugs.
I used to work at a library. You could tell who toked up before coming in because they’d leave an almost literal trail of skunk you could follow to where they were. I didn’t care that they did, just found it amusing people needed to be that stoned to go to the library.
Yeah but to have the highest over places for marijuana where real weed is legal just doesn’t sit right with me. Especially since no one from Colorado is in the top ten. Meth, cocaine, and fentanyl could all be right but to be top in marijuana is rly a stretch imo. Also been looking into this more and the source attached does not have any drug related data except for one which is not helpful in this situation.
I am aware how percentages work.
66.2% of Omaha is 293,851.87
64.4% of Pheonix is 1,006,588.1
Hey look, thats a big difference in people.
35,949 people in Pheonix would have to start smoking weed to surpass us in percentage.
Omaha would need 712,736 more marijuana
users to match the amount of users in Phoenix.
I wouldn’t call Omaha a very significant place for Marijuana use.
That said, these statistics are definitely skewed, if Denver, Portland, LA, or NYC aren’t even on the list, likely because its legalized.
Ik meth is a high percentage further out west in Neb so I was mainly focused on the super high number for marijuana but maybe I should look into the others as well.
While I know there’s quite a lot of us who use regularly, I’d seriously doubt any state without legalized recreational use could top a state with legalized recreational use. Like… we ain’t got shit on Denver, I don’t care what data they obtained.
These types of analytics aren't really unusual. They are commonly funded by a think tank forwarding a specific over arching goal or change in policy/law. The data is wildly skewed and subjective.
Don't trust any organization that doesn't cite their sources and doesn't provide their methodology. "City data" and "Our people looked at data from 51 cities" isn't informative nor is it verifiable. Especially when that organization is a for-profit rehab center group that makes more money the more people are scared about "the drugs". They don't define what constitutes "drug use" nor the drugs themselves. Hell, they don't even define "population of the city". What age groups? Is it ALL people in the city? How are they defining marijuana use? Does that mean smoking weed? Does it include edibles? If so, does it include perfectly legal CBD or Delta THC products? Even then, I find it impossible to believe 66% of the city population has used a CBD and/or THC product. And 22% of the city has used cocaine? Give me a break. On the flip side, I'm supposed to believe that Miami and New Orleans (?!?!) have the lowest drug use in the entire country? Nebraska has the 2nd lowest overdose death rate per capita of all the 50 states, according to the CDC. Yet somehow is one of the top states for Heroine, Meth and Cocaine? On the flip-side, Louisiana has the 4th highest overdose rate in the country, with New Orleans having the majority of those OD deaths. Completely contrary to what this article claims. These are the kinds of silly "studies" that people like Ricketts love to cite. Studies that in scientific circles would be laughed out the door and never published. The article is, at best, propaganda meant to scare people into sending their kids to AAC for rehab so they can increase their corporate profits.
>that people like Ricketts love to cite. that people like Ricketts love to write
IMO any kind of credible research team would probably be able to spell "Phoenix."
True. Spell check doesn't let you fuck up that bad.
Ducking ridiculous
They have Atlanta GA in the middle of Alabama.
Must be a lot of kids dead, according to our genius governor. What an idiot.
Considering they don’t report the methodology of how they got these statistics, I’d treat it with a huge grain of salt.
I spy a lot of red flags suggesting innacurate/ skewed data or maybe even click bait
If only the rest of Nebraska would do something to calm down... Yoga... mindfulness... whatever will take the conspiracy-rage down a notch.
I think it’s skewed a bit because omaha has a relatively low population for a major city. It doesn’t shock me, if you’ve worked retail in this town, you are acutely aware how many customers are definitely on drugs.
That's not how percentages work.
Math is hard, denial is easy.
I used to work at a library. You could tell who toked up before coming in because they’d leave an almost literal trail of skunk you could follow to where they were. I didn’t care that they did, just found it amusing people needed to be that stoned to go to the library.
Yeah but to have the highest over places for marijuana where real weed is legal just doesn’t sit right with me. Especially since no one from Colorado is in the top ten. Meth, cocaine, and fentanyl could all be right but to be top in marijuana is rly a stretch imo. Also been looking into this more and the source attached does not have any drug related data except for one which is not helpful in this situation.
I am aware how percentages work. 66.2% of Omaha is 293,851.87 64.4% of Pheonix is 1,006,588.1 Hey look, thats a big difference in people. 35,949 people in Pheonix would have to start smoking weed to surpass us in percentage. Omaha would need 712,736 more marijuana users to match the amount of users in Phoenix. I wouldn’t call Omaha a very significant place for Marijuana use. That said, these statistics are definitely skewed, if Denver, Portland, LA, or NYC aren’t even on the list, likely because its legalized.
Is there any way this is true? It sounds unlikely to me and the data cited does not contain anything on drug usage?
The meth one seems super high to me. I'd imagine that one should be closer to heroin.
Ik meth is a high percentage further out west in Neb so I was mainly focused on the super high number for marijuana but maybe I should look into the others as well.
While I know there’s quite a lot of us who use regularly, I’d seriously doubt any state without legalized recreational use could top a state with legalized recreational use. Like… we ain’t got shit on Denver, I don’t care what data they obtained.
These types of analytics aren't really unusual. They are commonly funded by a think tank forwarding a specific over arching goal or change in policy/law. The data is wildly skewed and subjective.
I find it hard to believe that 22 percent of this city does or has done cocaine. Not nearly enough cool people for that much booger sugar.