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I am somewhat offended by Johnson et al.’s characterization of drug users who came of age during the Vietnam War era as the “worst generation.” The 1960s generation was compelled to both fight and oppose an illegal and immoral imperial war forced on it by leaders from the so-called Greatest Generation, a generation that believed the USA was justified in using massive military force to subjugate potentially “communist” developing nations.
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I would like to thank Dr. Susan Carlson for sharing her thoughts on the econometrics of crime as I was preparing this commentary.
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Michalowski, R. “More Drugs, Less Crime”: an idea in the making. Dialect Anthropol 40, 355–362 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-016-9424-7
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