"Methland"

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106388550

This is a great example of what can happen when capitalist corporations buy out smaller companies and suppress the previously livable wages to a below livable level, forcing workers to put in more hours in order to survive. Then the workers take meth to cope with the stress of long working hours. I think that this factor should be brought into the debate over illegal drugs use in American cities: we should look at multiple variables instead of blaming the problem simply on lack of drug interdiction caused by insecure borders.

And, yes, this does put yet another nail in the coffin of secular, finance capitalism (as if it needed any more).