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The highest rates of cannabis usage seem to be the Anglosphere countries: Canada, the US, New Zealand, Australia (with the UK not far behind). Why is this? Other affluent Western nations, such as Germany and Ireland, have much lower rates of usage (24.5% for Germany and 17%).
The low rate in some seemingly liberal nations like Sweden, with only 12% using it in their lifetime, and Norway with 16.7%. Nearby Denmark, however, records 36.5%. Even in the Netherlands, very surprisingly, only 22.6% of adults have reported using it in their lifetimes! Is this difference largely due to laws? I mean Denmark has pretty similar culture to Sweden and Norway so I don't think that would explain it.
Japan's 1.5% is really low, although not that surprising. I heard they've got really tough laws, I remember when Paul McCartney got busted and jailed years ago.
What other stats surprised you?
In general, rates in most of the world were lower than expected. Personally, growing up in Australia, it seemed most people at least tried pot once or a few times (I mean I did). Mexico's 7% or so is pretty surprising, as well. All of the European countries had rates lower than I expected. i don't think anywhere surprised me by how prevalent the rate was, although the gap between Australia (33.5%) and the US, Canada, NZ (all over 40%) is sort of interesting.
This got me thinking that pot use might be inversely proportionate with tobacco use by country. Thus, Asian countries don't smoke much pot but are heavy tobacco users. The US and Canada don't smoke much tobacco but love their marijuana.
I'd say health conscious countries opt for pot over tobacco. Then again, how can I call the US health conscious??
The highest rates of cannabis usage seem to be the Anglosphere countries: Canada, the US, New Zealand, Australia (with the UK not far behind). Why is this? Other affluent Western nations, such as Germany and Ireland, have much lower rates of usage (24.5% for Germany and 17%).
The low rate in some seemingly liberal nations like Sweden, with only 12% using it in their lifetime, and Norway with 16.7%. Nearby Denmark, however, records 36.5%. Even in the Netherlands, very surprisingly, only 22.6% of adults have reported using it in their lifetimes! Is this difference largely due to laws? I mean Denmark has pretty similar culture to Sweden and Norway so I don't think that would explain it.
The Danes are more liberal. For instance, hardcore pornography was illegal in Norway until the mid 00s.
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