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To: MrLucky who wrote (256438)7/1/2008 3:46:35 PM
From: Oral Roberts  Read Replies (2) of 793887
 
What more proof does the people need that our insane war on drugs is a massive failure and take to the streets demanding that we stop pouring money into fighting it?

Reuters
U.S. leads world in substance abuse, WHO finds

Tue Jul 1, 12:31 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States leads the world in rates of experimenting with marijuana and cocaine despite strict drug laws, World Health Organization researchers said on Tuesday.
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Countries with looser drug laws have lower rates of abuse, the researchers report in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS Medicine.

The survey of 54,000 people in 17 countries found that 16 percent of people in the United States had used cocaine in their lifetimes -- far higher than the next highest rate, found in New Zealand, where 4.3 percent of people reported having used cocaine.

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