Gays Take Four Times As Many Drugs As Straights (from Skrufff)

A massive New Zealand survey has revealed that gay, lesbian bisexual people are four times as likely as straight people to take speed and acid and three times as likely to do ecstasy.

Massey University researchers analysed government data from the New Zealand Health Behaviours Surveys involving 15,000 people and found that while gays drank broadly similar quantities as straights, they also were twice as likely to use pot, and 50% more like to smoke tobacco.

“Other research has already established that gay, lesbian and bisexual people’s substance use is related to their exposure to personal, institutional and societal discrimination,” study chief Frank Pega told the New Zealand Herald, “And to social stress arising from this experience of marginalization,” he said.