Detroit is bankrupt, not only financially, but also socially and spiritually.   
   What happened?   
      
   As early as 1970, sociological, economic and production studies and analyses   
   of Detroit started showing up first on suggested reading lists and then became   
   actual content of university level courses. All predicted a decline for the   
   City. The problem was    
   drugs.   
      
   More drugs, especially marijuana, were consumed per capita in Detroit than on   
   average for the whole US. Drugs were being used openly on the assembly lines,   
   in the streets and behind the steering wheel.   
      
   In 1971 the novelist Arthur Hailey published Wheels. It was a novel concerning   
   the automobile industry and the day-to-day pressures involved in its   
   operation. Hailey was criticized for showing so much   drug use in the car   
   plants. He defended himself by    
   saying that every drug incident in the novel was supported by articles in   
   Detroit newspapers.   
      
   Are Seattle and Denver going to be the next American cities to suffer the same   
   fate at Detroit?   
      
   JL 11-02-2014   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)