Adult lifetime cannabis use by country

Adult lifetime cannabis use by country

Lifetime prevalence of cannabis use among all adults in surveys among the general population. [http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/html.cfm/index39559EN.html Table GPS-8 Part (i), Lifetime prevalence of drug use among all adults (aged 15 to 64 years old) in nationwide surveys among the general population] . EMCDDA (European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction).] [http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0050141 "Toward a Global View of Alcohol, Tobacco, Cannabis, and Cocaine Use: Findings from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys"] . July 2008, Volume 5, Issue 7, e141. "PLoS Medicine" (Public Library of Science). Full article: [http://medicine.plosjournals.org/archive/1549-1676/5/7/pdf/10.1371_journal.pmed.0050141-L.pdf] . See [http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=slideshow&type=table&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0050141&id=14267 Table 1] for the survey dates, and participant ages. See [http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=slideshow&type=table&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0050141&id=14269 Table 2] for the percentages of use.] Unless another reference is indicated (see "Refs" column) all the data comes from the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. The table is sortable. A sortable table is identified by the arrows in each of its header cells. Clicking them will cause the table rows to sort based on the selected column, in ascending order first, and subsequently toggling between ascending and descending order. For example; the countries can be sorted according to the percentage of lifetime cannabis use. "To see the table ordered by highest percentage of use click the "Cannabis (%)" column header icon twice." See also: Annual cannabis use by country.

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*Annual cannabis use by country
*Cannabis reform at the international level
*Decriminalization of non-medical marijuana in the United States
*Health issues and the effects of cannabis
*Illegal drug trade
*Legal and medical status of cannabis
*Legality of cannabis by country
*Removal of cannabis from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act
*Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs


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