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It's completely possible that Americans snort more cocaine than that per year.

I feel fairly confident that the average American doesn't snort a sixth of a pound of cocaine each year.

At just over 1g a week, it's not out of the realms of possibility, taking into account those who abuse it. I've unfortunately known people who could use that much in a week.

Oh for sure I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that there is someone somewhere who goes through a sixth of a pound per year. In fact I'm sure there are people.

What I absolutely do think it's out of the realm of possibility that the average American does. Something like 2% of Americans use cocaine.[1] That figure is probably extremely imprecise, but it barely matters because even if it was 20% it would require that the average user was going through a gram a day.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine_in_the_United_States

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