[mugs99]

The Baby Boomers continue to show how society should NOT behave.

And you arrive at this conclusion by way of a press release from the Ministry of Propaganda?

These statistics are the result of SAMHSA surveys. These are household surveys, conducted in the home, and can tie the admission of illegal behavior to an individual person, address and telephone number.

Many respondents are aware that providing incriminating data to a surveyor holds risk. Media reports regularly describe the proliferation (and compromising) of databases containing private information; this is likely to condition survey respondents to ask themselves whether their answers could potentially end up in a database connected to their name. It begs credulity to assume that a vast majority of informed adults would be reliably honest about their use of illegal drugs.

The survey results over the past several years reflects the rising public awareness of the danger of answering these surveys honestly. Younger respondents are more aware of the danger than baby boomers are.
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[TKDietz]

"It begs credulity to assume that a vast majority of informed adults would be reliably honest about their use of illegal drugs."

I noticed on this survey that surveyors didn't get to survey about a quarter of the people they wanted to survey. Adults were more likely to refuse to take the survey than teens. I bet if everyone actually took the survey and were completely honest in their responses the percentage of folks using drugs would be much higher.