Brazil: Marijuana use is on the decline in Brazil

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Norma Nery

Agencia Brasil

Tuesday 27 Jun 2006

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Rio - The tendency in Brazil is for marijuana use to decline. Marijuana
is the most widely consumed drug in the world among the 200 million
individuals between the ages of 15 and 64 who use narcotics at least
once a year, as well as among the 100 million who take drugs once a
month. These data are from this year's edition of the United Nations
Office on Drugs and Crime's (UNODC) annual World Drug Report, which was
released yesterday (26) in the UN Information Center in Rio de Janeiro.

The coordinator of the UNODC's Drugs and HIV/AIDS Projects for Brazil
and the Southern Cone, Cíntia Freitas, said that the decrease may be
credited to the government's anti-drug campaigns and greater control and
inspection of marijuana traffic. She points out that Brazil ranks sixth
in the world in drug seizures and is responsible for 3% of the global
total. Brazilian officials seized 200 tons of the drug in 2002 and
around 155 tons in 2004.
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