Crappy study, interesting data.

In My Yahoo this morning, there was an article titled Study: Young gay men use more drugs. So I clicked.

The study is where researchers went and interviewed gay men at bars. To quote: "Nearly one third of 3,492 young men who have sex with men interviewed in seven U.S. cities said they use drugs at least once a week, and 59 percent said they'd smoked marijuana in the past six months." That is interesting. Scary, but interesting.

However, they go on to say that this is higher than the national average, because, "By contrast, national surveys suggest that only 37 percent of young men in general used marijuana over the past six months, Thiede said. Only 14 percent had ever used cocaine, compared to 31 percent of the young gay men." but I am willing to bet they didn't survey straight men at bars clubbing with friends.

Sigh.

When will people compare apples to apples? I am not arguing that homosexuals don't do more drugs (it could very well be possible) but in order to make comparisions, I would like the same survey to be given at comperable clubs in the seven cities sited (not just nationwide -- really, where does a kid in rural Iowa get access to X, Tina or coke?) to make conclusive comparitive statements.