A couple days ago Marc Herman told us that while Europe doesn’t have the meth habit the United States has, if it had a capital of crank, that would be the Czech Republic. As hmunkey commented on Herman’s piece, “Everytime we get news in France about meth, it's always sourced back to the CR.” Still, the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction rates cannabis, both in bud form and as hashish, as the Czech’s drug of choice, followed by ecstasy and then meth. But the poor-man’s party chemical that has the Czechs most alarmed right now is alcohol—or rather, poorly ... Read More

