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UN Says 27 Million Problem Drug Users Worldwide

The UNODC says cannabis remained the most widely used drug with up to 224 million users worldwide.The UNODC says cannabis remained the most widely used drug with up to 224 million users worldwide.
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The UNODC says cannabis remained the most widely used drug with up to 224 million users worldwide.
The UNODC says cannabis remained the most widely used drug with up to 224 million users worldwide.
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A new United Nations report says drug abuse kills some 200,000 people a year.

The report estimates that some 27 million people worldwide are problem drug users.

According to the report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), cannabis remained the most widely used drug with up to 224 million users worldwide.

The report says that some 230 million people -- or 5 percent of the world's population -- used illegal drugs at least once in 2010.

The report notes that global production and use of illegal drugs was relatively stagnant last year.

Afghanistan remains world's largest opium producer.

Based on reporting by AFP, AP, and RFE/RL
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by: malcolm kyle from: New York
June 26, 2012 20:56
Prohibition's underlying ideology is based wholly on fear, hate, envy, and greed - leading universally and invariably to abject failure, economic collapse, sickness and war.

Ending prohibition would greatly reduce, even almost eliminate, the market in illegal narcotics, cause a reduction in the number of users and addicts, greatly curtail drug related illness and deaths, reduce societal harm from problematic abusers, and bring about an enormous reduction in the presence and influence of organized crime. The people who use drugs are our own children, our brothers, our sisters, our parents and our neighbors. By allowing all adults safe and controlled legal access to psychoactive substances, we will not only greatly reduce the dangers for both them and ourselves but also greatly minimize the possibility of 'peer-initiation' and sales to minors.

Never have so many been harmed and impoverished by so few, so quickly. Prohibition is not just an extremely expensive accident. Like any harmful and completely ineffective policy, it was connived and implemented by immoral, malicious, fools. It cannot be ended soon enough.

After many decades of drug-war-dystopia, don't we all deserve a healthy, safe and prosperous future?

Just say no to prohibition-insanity, prohibition-corruption, prohibition-violence and prohibition-terrorism!

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