Well, we can officially call ourselves Toker Nation now. According to the 2007 World Drug Report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Canada has the dubious honour of leading the industrialized world in marijuana use, at least when calculated as a percentage of population.According to the UN report, which is a staple of police forces around the world, 16.8 per cent of Canadians between the ages of 15 and 64 smoked pot or ingested one of its derivatives last year.
That's well above the world average of 3.8 per cent for the same demographic and ahead of almost every other country in the world save for Ghana (21.5 per cent of the population), Zambia (17.7 per cent) and the tiny island-states of Papua New Guinea and Micronesia (29 per cent each).
The good news is that pot consumption around the world — and in Canada — may be levelling off, according to the UN and Interpol, which does its own analysis of the statistics. Canadian toking is actually down a bit in 2005, the most recent year for which statistics are available, and so is marijuana trafficking to the U.S., Interpol says, the result of successful border crackdowns.
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