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To: TKDietz

You think the statistics about drug use in this corrupt nation are accurate? LOL! I don’t mean to be rude, but really, that’s laughable in a country that will confiscate reading material upon entrance if it contains any negative truth about it.


77 posted on 03/14/2009 7:47:26 AM PDT by Melinda
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To: Melinda
I agree that the statistics are probably not very accurate. What you will notice though when you look at international drug use statistics, regardless of the source, is that drug use tends to be higher i affluent nations than in poorer nations on average. Major source countries of drugs are often the poorer nations. And, whether we are talking about Morocco, Mexico or any other major source country the statistics pretty much always show that per capita use is much lower in these source countries than in the countries they are supplying. The people in these poorer source countries are struggling to survive. They can barely afford food, let alone drugs and a lot of leisure time to do drugs. I believe the statistics are probably in the ballpark of being right. There are probably a greater percentage of Americans and Europeans using marijuana and hashish than Moroccans.

I'm linking you to the consumption estimates from the 2008 UN World Drug Report. Scroll down to pages 276 and 277 to see estimates for cannabis use prevalence for person 15 through 64 the US, Europe and Morocco.

http://www.unodc.org/documents/wdr/WDR_2008/WDR2008_Statistical_Annex_Consumption.pdf

80 posted on 03/14/2009 8:02:36 AM PDT by TKDietz
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