Canada scores high on herb
Pot still illegal. South Pacific tokes the most, UN says
JULIET O'NEILL, CanWest News Service
Published: 6 hours ago
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Marijuana use in Canada is the highest in the industrialized world, far higher than in the Netherlands where it's legal, and more than four times the global rate, a report by the United Nations has found.
The report also says cannabis use around the world appears to have stabilized and appears to be declining in North America. A plunge in use by Ontario high school students was cited as a factor in the trend.
The world drug-use study by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime said that 16.8 per cent of Canadians age 15 to 64 smoked marijuana or used other cannabis products in 2004, the most recent year for which statistics were cited.