Indopedia All Things Marijuana
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) just released its 2017 World Drug Report, which collates drug statistics from 2015. Cannabis tops the list as the world’s most consumed, most widely grown, and most confiscated drug. Yet, despite its worldwide popularity, not one single person died from cannabis use in 2015, the same as in previous years.
The report estimates that 3.8% of the world’s adult population, an estimated 183 million people, used cannabis in 2015. Opioids and opiates were the next most popular drugs used worldwide, followed by cocaine, amphetamines, and ecstasy. In the U.S., as more states have legalized cannabis, the number of people reporting using pot within the past month has increased. In 2015, 8.3% of Americans over age 12 reported recently using cannabis, compared to 6.2% in 2002.
In Europe, around 6.6% of people aged 15 to 64 used cannabis in 2015. Around one percent of Europeans, about 3 million adults, are estimated to be daily cannabis users. In countries that allow medical marijuana, non-medical adult use of cannabis increased from 5.8% to 7.2% from 2004 to 2013. However, the report notes that countries that legalized medical…
