United Nations Drug Report Puts Unprecedented Focus On Cannabis
The annual report looks at supply and demand trends for various substances
For the first time, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime is recommending a global ban on cannabis advertising.
Broadly, the Office’s World Drug Report 2021, released Thursday, put an unprecedented emphasis on cannabis trends, as jurisdictions across the globe move toward reform. Mexico looks poised to become the latest country to end its cannabis prohibition, joining Canada and Uruguay. And in the United States, there are now 19 states (and D.C.) with legal adult use.
The annual report looks at supply and demand trends for various substances across the globe each year, and recently began to look at “the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on drug market dynamics,” too.
“One of the main analyses that we have done this year is to understand how young people perceive cannabis and compare it with the evolution of the cannabis product over the years,” Angela Me, the chief of the Office’s Research & Trends Analysis Branch, said at the start of a report launch event in Vienna, Austria, on Thursday morning.
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