*Anarcissie* wrote:
> http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hovUpnhllEsX9vClXt86VxCmwo1A
>
> Americans are world's top drug users: study
>
> 1 day ago
>
> WA****NGTON (AFP) — Americans are the world's top consumers of cannabis
> and cocaine despite punitive US drug laws, according to an
> international study published in the online scientific magazine PLoS
> Medicine.
>
> The study, released Monday, revealed that 16.2 percent of Americans
> had tried cocaine at least once, and 42.4 percent had used marijuana.
>
> In second-place New Zealand, just 4.3 percent of study participants
> had used cocaine, and 41.9 percent marijuana.
>
> The research was conducted at the University of New South Wales in
> Sydney, based on World Health Organization data from 54,068 people in
> 17 countries.
>
> Rates of participation differed from country to country, and
> researchers noted uncertainty over how honestly people re****t their
> own drug use.
>
> "Nevertheless, the findings present comprehensive data on the patterns
> of drug use from national samples representing all regions of the
> world," a PLoS statement said.
>
> A vast majority of survey participants from the United States, Europe,
> Japan and New Zealand had consumed alcohol, compared to smaller
> percentages from the Middle East, Africa and China.
>
> The data also revealed socioeconomic patterns in drug use. Single
> young adult men with high income had the greatest tendency to
> regularly use drugs.
>
Those who can afford to do unless they know of bad effects that
would interfere
with serious life plans.
> Drug use "does not appear to be simply related to drug policy," the
> researchers wrote, "since countries with more stringent policies
> toward illegal drug use did not have lower levels of such drug use
> than countries with more liberal policies."
> In the Netherlands, where drug policy is more liberal than the United
>
> States, 1.9 percent of survey participants said they had used cocaine
> and 19.8 percent marijuana.
>
Inverse relation****p between Prohibition measures and consumers use as
I mentioned the other day.
> Twelve US 12 states including California permit medical use of
> marijuana, but possession and use remains prohibited under federal
> law.
>
And the Federales remain committed to suppression of the medical
cannabis
dispensaries.
> And despite the US government's massive anti-drug efforts, the United
> States remains the world's top drug market, one amply supplied by
> South American cartels.
>
Except for the War On some Drug users the cartels would not exist
and most likely
would be a farmers cooperative.
> The US Drug Enforcement Agency has observed ever larger quantities of
> illegal drugs pouring into the country.
>
> "We are seizing greater quantities of illegal drugs than ever before,"
> said a DEA statement last week.
>
And the prices keep falling so they are not getting very much of it.
> In 2007, agents seized 41 metric tons of cocaine in just two raids,
> and denied drug traffickers record-breaking revenue of 3.5 billion
> dollars for the year, it said.
>
later
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later
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"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by the beans of cocoa that the thoughts acquire speed,
the thighs acquire girth, the girth become a warning.
It is by theobromine alone I set my mind in motion."
--from Someone else's Dune spoof ripped to my taste.
--
bobbie sellers - a retired nurse in San Francisco
Ningen banji Human beings do
Samazama no Every single kind
Baka a suru Of stupid thing
--- 117th edition of Haifu Yanagidaru published in 1832
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