Many of our annual visitors are looking for information to supplement school or research projects. We at the College find it helpful to offer statistics on a wide variety of topics, an index of which you can browse in the following pages. Studies include international drug use among teens, incarceration rates for Cannabis and other drugs and much more. Please note that studies, surveys and statistics are only listed up to the year preceding the one that is current, as a full twelve months must pass in order for the data to be complete.
Consumption
rates:
A
recent study of 17 countries revealed that despite heavy prohibition
the United States has the highest level of illegal Cocaine and
Cannabis use.
So
does prohibition really work?
The
research showed that Cannabis use was highest in the USA (42.4%).
Drug use "does not appear to be simply related to drug policy,"
say the authors, "since countries with more stringent policies
towards illegal drug use did not have lower levels of such drug use
than countries with more liberal policies." In the Netherlands,
for example, which has more liberal policies than the US, only 19.8%
reported cannabis use.
>> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080630201007.htm)
For more statistics from 2007 check:
European Monitoring Centre for Drugs
and Drug Addiction.
>> http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/stats07/main
