The country with the biggest weed habit?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That might surprise you<\/p>\n
Though cannabis is not actually legal in the Netherlands, it can be widely consumed in the country’s infamous coffee shops.<\/p>\n
However, despite the ubiquity of the drug, Dutch citizens are not the world’s biggest tokers: according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), that dubious distinction goes to Iceland.<\/p>\n
Top 30 cannabis consuming countries<\/p>\n
1. Iceland – 18.3% (prevalence of use as percentage of population)<\/p>\n
2. US – 16.2%<\/p>\n
3. Nigeria – 14.3%<\/p>\n
4. Canada – 12.7%<\/p>\n
5. Chile – 11.83%<\/p>\n
6. France – 11.1%<\/p>\n
7. New Zealand – 11%<\/p>\n
8. Bermuda – 10.9%<\/p>\n
9. Australia – 10.2%<\/p>\n
10. Zambia – 9.5%<\/p>\n
11. Uruguay – 9.3%<\/p>\n
12. Spain – 9.2%<\/p>\n
13. Italy – 9.2%<\/p>\n
14. Madagascar – 9.1%<\/p>\n
15. Czech Republic – 8.9%<\/p>\n
16. Israel – 8.88%<\/p>\n
17. St Lucia – 8.87%<\/p>\n
18. Belize – 8.45%<\/p>\n
19. Barbados – 8.3%<\/p>\n
20. Netherlands – 8%<\/p>\n
21. Greenland – 7.6%<\/p>\n
22. Jamaica – 7.21%<\/p>\n
23. Denmark – 6.9%<\/p>\n
24. Switzerland – 6.7%<\/p>\n
25. Egypt – 6.24%<\/p>\n
26.UK – 6.2%<\/p>\n
27. Ireland – 6%<\/p>\n
28. Estonia – 6%<\/p>\n
29. Bahamas – 5.54%<\/p>\n
30. Sierra Leone – 5.42%<\/p>\n
The UNODC’s data suggests that cannabis is used by 18.3 per cent of Iceland’s population (aged 15-64). The US (16.2 per cent) and Nigeria (14.3 per cent) had the second and third highest rates of consumption; the UK came 26th on the list, followed by Ireland. And the Netherlands? It came 20th.<\/p>\n
Data is not available for all of the world’s countries – and some figures have been updated more recently than others – meaning caution should be exercised when drawing comparisons.<\/p>\n
Source:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/travel\/maps-and-graphics\/mapped-the-countries-that-smoke-the-most-cannabis\/\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1st Dec. 2016<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The country with the biggest weed habit?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That might surprise you Though cannabis is not actually legal in the Netherlands, it can be widely consumed in the country’s infamous coffee shops. However, despite the ubiquity of the drug, Dutch citizens are not the world’s biggest tokers: according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-marijuana","category-social-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13178","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=13178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}