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    13 hours ago

    I ve heard from someone in europe how a shopkeeper frequently has candy bars stolen.

    The candy gets tossed on the street, its the foil they want.

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      “Having heard from someone” this or that is a whole different category than the extent of the drug problems in the US.

      “I’ve heard from someone there’s this American Football team in Amsterdam, so basically football is the most popular sport in Europe now.”

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        I wasn’t really comparing the severity of drug problems in the US vs Europe.

        Just that the phenomenon is not exclusive to the US just like being naive about drugs isn’t exclusive to Europe.

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          Of course it’s not exclusive to the US? The severity is exactly what is noteworthy about the situation in the US though.

          What do you mean with being naive about drugs? I don’t think in Europe we’re naive about it, we know there’s addiction here as well but we generally try to take care of addicts as fellow human beings instead of excluding them from society and making the situation worse.

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            What did you mean with this?

            “ It’s ok, be glad you’re clearly too European to get this. Leave the Americans to deal with their problems”

            Only way i can read it is to say this problem doesn’t exist in Europe.

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        I would have assumed the same but the littering of the candy bars was a specific part of the problem.

        I have little reason to believe this person was lying, i also don’t want to give to much if their personal detail context online but fair i wasn’t there myself to witness it.