Replying to When did oil hit your community?

I am wondering when the other people in american(and whereever) finally struck oil. It seems like I had not even heard of it until a couple years ago and it wasn't until last september that anyone I knew of did the stuff regularly, but by now it seems like every street youth has a pen and is just doing it all the time. Have many of your street youths been incinerating "earl' and if so when did it seem like it became an epidemic?