The United Nations has published its annual report on drug use in the world, offering in this an interesting map showing the distribution of marijuana in the world: what are the countries where smoking more ganja?
The United Nations Organization has just published its report on drug use in the world, which takes into account data collected between 2010 and 2011. Thus, the UN reports:
"An estimated 230 million people, or 5% of the world's adult population, they consumed an illicit drug at least once in 2010. Problem drug users number about 27 million, or 0.6% of the population adult world. Overall, illicit drug use appears to have stabilized around the world, but continues to rise in several developing countries. Heroin, cocaine and other drugs claim the lives of about 0.2 million people each year, plant devastation on families and cause suffering to thousands of others. illicit drugs undermine the economic and social development and encourage crime, instability, insecurity and the spread of HIV. "
Also, among other indicators that are relevant, the UN produced a map that shows the distribution of consumption of a specific drug: marijuana.
As shown, the industrialized countries and more developed. Particularly noteworthy cases in the U.S. and Australia, the first and most important market and insatiable for Mexican and Colombian traffickers, the latter being, according to recent research, the most promising country to which they are facing criminal organizations like the Drug Cartel Sinaloa.
Sources: Pijamasurf.com and Delicious Seeds
