{"id":10965,"date":"2016-08-15T17:21:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T17:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=10965"},"modified":"2017-10-05T13:25:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T13:25:57","slug":"marijuana-use-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2016\/08\/marijuana-use-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana Use Around the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\">If you had to guess which country had the most marijuana users, which would it be? It&#8217;s not the Netherlands\u2014they&#8217;re not even in the top five. This map, courtesy of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/conradhackett\/status\/584647921800327168\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Conrad Hackett<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unodc.org\/wdr2014\/en\/interactive-map.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">UNODC<\/span><\/a>, shows where marijuana use is most widespread.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Per capita, Iceland leads the pack:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\"><b>1.\u00a0<\/b>Iceland<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\"><b>2.<\/b>\u00a0United States<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\"><b>3.<\/b>\u00a0New Zealand<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\"><b>4.\u00a0<\/b>Nigeria<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\"><b>5.\u00a0<\/b>Canada<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\">You can read the UN&#8217;s full report on cannabis\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unodc.org\/documents\/wdr2014\/Cannabis_2014_web.pdf\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here (PDF)<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #0000ff;\">Source: UNODC April 2015 <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/qdlWMEAVRJ\">http:\/\/www.unodc.org\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you had to guess which country had the most marijuana users, which would it be? It&#8217;s not the Netherlands\u2014they&#8217;re not even in the top five. This map, courtesy of\u00a0Conrad Hackett\u00a0and\u00a0UNODC, shows where marijuana use is most widespread. Per capita, Iceland leads the pack: 1.\u00a0Iceland 2.\u00a0United States 3.\u00a0New Zealand 4.\u00a0Nigeria 5.\u00a0Canada You can read the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-social-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}