[farlander]

Hard to be a drug dealer and a muslim (at least as the fundamentalist thing is concerned). Most muslim countries chop heads off for trafficking.

[RedRover]

I thought trafficking was fine but using was not. (My error.)

[2banana]

Hard to be a drug dealer and a muslim (at least as the fundamentalist thing is concerned). Most muslim countries chop heads off for trafficking.

WRONGO! Muslims only take offense to muslim drug dealers when they sell drugs to fellow mulsims. If they are selling to infidels or exporting to infidel countries - they actually support it...

[jordan8]

Pakistan has one of the worst opiate problems in the world, and smoking opium and hashish is common in Afghanistan and other Muslim countries.

Opiate abuse is a serious problem. Its annual abuse in Pakistan is estimated at 0.8 percent of the population aged between 15 and 64. Pakistan and Iran - the two major transit countries for Afghan opiates - have the highest prevalence rates (2.8 percent) in the region. Other countries neighbouring Afghanistan have estimated prevalence rates of under 0.5 percent. The National Drug Abuse Assessment Study 2000 indicates that there are 500,000 hardcore heroin users in Pakistan. Of these, 60,000 inject heroin.

According to the study, cannabis type drugs (hashish and charas) are the most commonly used drugs in the urban and rural areas, followed by heroin and alcohol. The reportedly increased use of cannabis, heroin and alcohol should not distract from the fact that worryingly levels of other types of drug abuse were also reported. It is particularly a cause for concern that 9 percent of the respondents report the use of other opiates as common and that 20 percent report psychotropic substances as commonly used.