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Canadian pot use four times the global rate!

#7159796 - 07/11/07 08:28 AM (19 years, 2 months ago)

Trendal definitely took this survey. :smirk:

linkMarijuana use in Canada is the highest in the industrialized world and more than four times the global rate, according to a report from the United Nations.

The UN study even suggests Canadians use marijuana at a rate double that of the Netherlands, where it is legal to buy and sell the drug for personal use.

The report also says cannabis use around the world appears to have stabilized and appears to be declining in North America. A plunge in use by Ontario high school students was cited as a factor in the trend.

The world drug-use study by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime said that 16.8% of Canadians aged 15 to 64 smoked marijuana or used other cannabis products in 2004, the most recent year for which statistics were cited.

Marijuana possession remains illegal in Canada, despite years of recommendations by parliamentarians to decriminalize it. As a result, tens of thousands of people have criminal records for possession.

The Canadian Press reported yesterday that arrests for marijuana posession in several Canadian cities increased between 20% and 50% last year.

The report cited police officials as saying the jump in arrests is linked to the Conservative government's decision to drop a Liberal bill that would have decriminalized the posession of small amounts of marijuana.

"Everybody was waiting for what was going to happen ... There'd be no use clogging up the court system with that decriminalization bill there. When that was defeated, I'd say it was business as usual," Terry McLaren, president of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police, told The Canadian Press.

The UN study, using the most recent statistics collected from each country -- although some dated back almost a decade -- estimated that 3.8% of the world's population aged 15 to 64 used cannabis in 2005.

That was about 159 million people, down slightly from 162 million the previous year.

The data show Canadian usage fifth after Zambia (17.7% in 2003), Ghana (21.5% in 1998) and Papua New Guinea and Micronesia, which tied for first place at 29% each in 1995.

The Canadian statistics compared to 2005 rates of 8.7% in England and Wales, 12.6% in the United States, 8.5% in Israel; 10.7% in Jamaica (2001), and 6.1% in the Netherlands (2001), where possession and use of the drug is legal.

In some countries in East and Southeast Asia, such as Korea and Singapore, and in the Middle East, such as Oman and Qatar, cannabis use is negligible.

The report said cannabis comprises, by far, the largest illicit drug market on the planet.

The study also noted a 38% dip in cannabis use among U.S. 12th graders between 1979, when marijuana use peaked, and 2006. A 19% drop in use by Ontario high school students between 2003 and 2005 was also noted.

The report also said there was slightly less trafficking of cannabis from Canada into the United States in 2005.

"This could indicate that cannabis production stabilized or even declined slightly in Canada, following large production increases in previous years," the report said, citing Canadian government estimates. "Between 2000 and 2004, production [in] Canada more than doubled."

However, the report also suggested that the altered trafficking trend could also indicate that organized crime groups have relocated to the American Pacific northwest and California to avoid tightened border controls.

Forty per cent of Canadian cannabis is produced in British Columbia, 25% in Ontario and 25% in Quebec, the report noted.

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