Here's Why Vermont Has The Highest Rate Of Illicit Drug Use In America

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4. My daughter and I lived in Vermont for four years (1975-79) after I moved us there from California

so she could attend a very progressive school for students with disabilities. It was “progressive” in that there was intensive therapy (so, “early intervention,” since she was only two when we moved there) and also inclusion (or “mainstreaming,” back then). Early intervention and inclusion were very hard to come by in those days, so we moved 3,000 miles to get them.

Anyway… one year we lived in a cottage on some land with a bigger house that some couples from Boston owned together… and they would come up for weekends, holidays and vacations. One of the guys was a drug counselor who was considering relocating to Vermont permanently. So, he asked a local if there was a drug problem in the area, and the local said, “No… no problem getting drugs at all.”

I love Vermont. (I mean, not for the access to drugs, since I guess I have that here in San Francisco, too-- if I want it!) But, Vermont was (and is) a great state. I was lucky to have had the chance to live there.