You refuse to compare your mathematical numbers to even modern-day surveys, yet you don't hesitate to compare them to 100-year-old surveys/interviews/statistics/inventories/whatever.
The NHSDA changed the design of their drug survey in 1999 and said that their survey data obtained after 1999 cannot be compared to their own survey data obtained before 1999. But that doesn't stop you from comparing your apples and oranges.
Claiming that a certain number of people use drugs is more accurate when obtained by a mathematical formula vs a survey is a separate argument. Taking your number and then comparing it to a century-old statistic is flat-out irresponsible.
Like you did in post #90? -
The NSDUH survey shows 130,000 heroin users (at least once per month) in 2000 and 1.2 million cocaine users. If we assume 50% are addicts, that works out to .2% of the population, half the addicts of 1900.
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Claiming that a certain number of people use drugs is more accurate when obtained by a mathematical formula vs a survey is a separate argument. Taking your number and then comparing it to a century-old statistic is flat-out irresponsible.
Take it up with the people running the Drug War. Those are the numbers they are using. It's not my fault the numnuts made a case showing their own policy to be a failure.