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It's ok, be glad you're clearly too European to get this. Leave the Americans to deal with their problems
Like we don't have addicts doing stupid stuff in Europe
But you don't have aluminum foil over there. You only have aluminium, it's a completely different situation, you wouldn't understand.
as everyone knows, aluminium foil is completely unusable as drug paraphernalia.
We use lead foil like God intended.
Makes the crack taste sweeter 👌
Mad cracker
Why people gotta bring Elon into everything?
Lmao, sorry
Yeah... al-you-min-EE-um
Of course we do, but at least in Western Europe we take better care of them. There's generally social welfare programs, shelters, etc. In Amsterdam there's shelters where they can safely use crack so they have access to clean supplies.
The question "like we DON'T have them" is kind of silly. It's about how predominant the problem is, not whether we also have a couple.
The US has several times the crack user per capita compared to Europe, depending on where in Europe.
The CIA worked very hard to get those numbers where they are thank you very much.
Some people are just assholes though. There was some junkies poking used needles in lemons in stores here to clean them some years ago, even though they could get free needles
Yes some people are just assholes, that is true. The point is there's several times more assholes per capita in the US.
O, crack users I mean of course.
I ve heard from someone in europe how a shopkeeper frequently has candy bars stolen.
The candy gets tossed on the street, its the foil they want.
Fake news
They would obviously eat the candy also
Not on crack they wouldn’t
I would have assumed the same but the littering of the candy bars was a specific part of the problem.
I have little reason to believe this person was lying, i also don’t want to give to much if their personal detail context online but fair i wasn’t there myself to witness it.
"Having heard from someone" this or that is a whole different category than the extent of the drug problems in the US.
"I've heard from someone there's this American Football team in Amsterdam, so basically football is the most popular sport in Europe now."
I wasn’t really comparing the severity of drug problems in the US vs Europe.
Just that the phenomenon is not exclusive to the US just like being naive about drugs isn’t exclusive to Europe.
Of course it's not exclusive to the US? The severity is exactly what is noteworthy about the situation in the US.
What do you mean with being naive about drugs? I don't think in Europe we're naive about it, we know there's addiction here as well but we generally try to take care of addicts as fellow human beings instead of excluding them from society and making the situation worse.
What did you mean with this?
“ It's ok, be glad you're clearly too European to get this. Leave the Americans to deal with their problems”
Only way i can read it is to say this problem doesn’t exist in Europe.
The severity of the problem doesn't exist in Europe...
Such a useless discussion this is.
Glad to end it on something we can agree on.
I am North American, and I have never seen this before.
Am Canadian and have never noticed it before but I have no doubt it happens in my city. I never thought about how they get that stuff
Hey, spoons cost money.