If I use drugs, the only one I affect is myself. I would tell these young people that if they would promise to always be employed so no one else had to support them, never drive a car so as to endanger someone else, never have any children because they could be addicted at birth, and if any job you have does not ever involve the safety of others, if you can promise me all that, then go ahead and use drugs because then it will only be you. I'm starting to sound like a preacher. I might show up at a scene looking pretty grubby, but I was sober. Alcohol, followed by marijuana, although other drugs may be in more use now.
Alcohol is the most common.
At the Sheriff's Academy in California. I think those ratios pretty well hold today. I don't think it is any different in Minneapolis than it is in Grand Rapids or Coleraine or Bovey or Taconite. I thought it was pretty good. I used to talk to classes a lot.