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down. So research shows the trend is unprecedented, they say, and the experts are puzzled because they can't figure out why teens are abstaining from drugs more than ever before. So I don't know the answer to that question, but I could give you one possibility. One possibility is that the mix of students has changed quite a bit. If I look at my local schools, there's quite a big increase in immigr…

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some of it might be that when marijuana became legal, old people like me started doing it and it became super uncool to do what your grandfather was doing. Could be that. Could be that.

It could be that they're getting their dopamine from another source. Maybe they're just getting it from their phones instead. It's sort of a dopamine replacement. But I will tell you that locally I was impressed at how low the drug use and drinking is in the teenage years, at least from what I can determine through people who know people who know people. It does seem lower. It matches observation.

So the New York Post had some new photos from a never-before-seen, never-contacted tribe in the Amazon. So there are a few hundred people in this tribe that have never had contact with anybody outside their tribe, at least in our lifetime. And I guess there are a bunch of them. So there are a bunch of these little tribes that have never had contact. Now the reason they don't have contact is that the government of Brazil, for example, knows if they do get contacted they may not have resistance to all the diseases that we're used to, so it might just kill them. Just contact with us would give them all kinds of diseases. But somebody put some kind of trail cam or something so they weren't there in pe

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rson to take the pictures, but they got the pictures remotely. And how wild is it that there's a tribe that doesn't know there are things like computers and phones and airplanes? Just think about that. So you're this tribe in Brazil. You've never seen any civilization outside of your little tribe. They're all just running around naked with sticks and bows and arrows, and you see an airplane fly o…

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