| Chip Flintknapper 2006-06-30, 2:22 am |
| Michael wrote:
> Genie wrote:
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> "The UN report estimates that 160 million people use the drug worldwide,"
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> WHAT???
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> Not only would that place nearly half the pot smokers in the world in the
> USA... whose own government claims its cannabis-user population is over 70
> million... but it also makes a mockery of corrolary estimates of worldwide
> cannabis production - which would have 160 million average users consuming
> several kilos per year if they're correct.
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> Based on US figures alone, I'd *conservatively* estimate the world's
> cannabis users to number well over 500 million... although it wouldn't be a
> stretch to say that only 160 million have used it in the past few weeks.
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Don't forget that they usually include "tried once" in these statistics.
That means that anyone who ever smoked pot even once, just so they would
know the difference, would be included with hard drug users.
About 2 months ago, Mexico proposed decriminalizing drug use in general,
and the US wasted no time at all in sending our Drug War trash down
there to tell them what a bad idea it would be.
There is no reasoning with these dirt-bags. We need to lock them up and
be rid of them. Look at what they've done over the past quarter-century.
All they've succeeded in doing (at least in the US) is to lock up 3
million mostly harmless people, and ruin their lives forever.
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