Well, I'm a few days late posting it here (too busy toking), but earlier this month the UN's 2007 World Drug Report was released and "Canada has the dubious honour of leading the industrialized world in marijuana use". Woo!
Some interesting things about the report are in this article which focuses on the world usage of what's referred to as 'The big five'; cannabis, amphetamines, cocaine, heroin, and ecstasy.
Some fun facts:
☺ 16.8 per cent of Canadians between the ages of 15 and 64 smoked pot or ingested one of its derivatives last year, well above the world average of 3.8 per cent for the same demographic and ahead of almost every other country in the world.
☺ Of the estimated 200 million people who used illicit drugs last year worldwide the vast majority, 160 million people, used marijuana - "which if they all lived in the same place would represent the seventh-largest country in the world." (!)
Happily Canadians are into the harmless drug, for the bad ones:
Iran, Russia and, oddly, nearby Estonia, have the biggest heroin problems (Canada is well below the world average here). Australia and New Zealand appear to lead the way in amphetamine abuse. (The Philippines have higher numbers but it is based on a small study.) Australia and the Czech Republic are the hotspots for ecstasy.
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