[jolmg]

> you typically need to be unsupervised with friends to get into drugs, something teenagers no longer have access to compared to 10-15 years ago.

They don't? I'm pretty sure I saw unsupervised teens hanging out at a mall even just a few days ago.

[mr_toad]

Gen X’s will probably remember being unsupervised from about the age they learned to ride a bike. I think we were the last “get home before dark” generation.

[kortilla]

Millennials were the same for the ones born in the late 80s and early 90s.

[DiggyJohnson]

Not to sound snarky, but please consider interpreting comments like these as making a statement about rate rather than an absolute binary.

[jolmg]

Right back at you. I was also commenting on rate rather than saying that I saw one or 2 in the last 10-15 years.

Not all locations are the same though, so maybe there has been a noticeable decrease where you're at. Personally, I think I've felt an increase if anything.

[exitb]

These changes aren't always easy to spot. I live in a city that acquired a significant Ukrainian population over the last two years. Whenever I see a group of kids that biked to an arbitrary location and play, they turn out to be young Ukrainians. They do the exact thing local kids would do 20 years ago.