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Cannabis smokers 'number 163 million worldwide' Associated Press Ananova Thursday 26 Jun 2003 A UN study has concluded 163 million people around the world smoke cannabis. The research has found the drug remains the most widely produced, trafficked and consumed illicit drug. Marijuana production also appears to be increasing. However, in the United States, use fell in 2002 among high school students, almost 10 percent less than in 1997 and some 30 percent less than in the late 1970s, the report says. The report distinguishes between cannabis resin, seized mainly in Western Europe, and cannabis herb, prevalent in the Americas but increasingly used in Africa. The report, released in Paris by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, shows nearly 200 million people around the world used illegal drugs in 2000-2001. "Globally, cocaine is the problem of the Americas, heroin is the problem of Asia and cannabis is the problem of Africa," the agency's executive director, Antonio Maria Costa, said. The number of people around the world who abuse opium and heroin has also remained stable at about 15 million. Cocaine is abused by about 14 million people, with the United States the world's largest cocaine market. Amphetamine-type stimulants like Ecstasy, known as ATS, represent an expanding market, particularly in the United States, the report says. Associated Press
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