Atlantic magazine is scared for the world’s youth.
According to the magazine’s March 7th article “The High Lands: Exploring Drug Tourism across Southeast Asia”, written by one Eve Turow, we all need to be afraid…very afraid. Tunrow’s article paints a portrait of Southeast Asia where evil Asians corrupt naïve backpacking youths, give them drugs, and send them back to their homelands gibbering, soulless shells of their former selves.
Ms. Tunrow describes a culture where locals uniformly smile at and encourage drug usage by tourists, where methamphetamines are socially acceptable, where policemen can be jollied out of making drug arrests, where innocent young twenty-somethings can sample exotic drugs available nowhere else in the world.
Where is this amazing place? Because we’re not familiar with the Southeast Asia Tunrow visited…unless she (as we suspect) conducted the entirety of her research in an alley off of Khao San road, and a drug den in Laos’ Vang Vien.
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