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UN Drug Report: America Still Loves Weed While the World Is Hooked on Pills
Globally between 28.6 and 38 million people use opioids, in the form of painkillers with brand names such as OxyContin and Vicodin. Prescription drugs and heroin are gaining in popularity worldwide compared with marijuana which is waning, according to the United Nations World Drug Report. Marijuana, which has been declining popularity since 2009 — except in the US, where more people are smoking more weed — has given way to an increase in the demand for prescription drugs, though not everywhe
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I think globally the use of prescription drugs for recreational use is rising.
“If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.” ― Bill Hicks
Alcohol is one hell of a drug, too, took some of my most productive years and tossed me on my head.