Almost everyone on the planet is an intoxicating-substance user of some sort or other. We already have a “druggie work force”, and we always have had it, and so does everyone else in the world.
Sorry, you are wrong. Not everyone is smoking dope or popping pills.
We can agree to disagree.
We’ve reached a point where cause and effect have become muddled; people can’t get a job because they’re on drugs, and they’re on drugs because they can’t get a job. Here in NJ we don’t just have a growing heroin problem; we seem to have much higher rates of marijuana and alcohol abuse as well. I don’t think it is any accident that this is one of the worst areas in terms of economic recovery; the economy is still horrible here. Many young people are leaving, and those that stay wonder who moved their cheese while adding visible tattoos and substance abuse arrests.