Americans are world's top drug users: study


	Americans are world's top drug users: study

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/203a24a0-4fa7-4560-8961-7487b119303f/62A4F10C-42A7-4035-B99C-E010673EE29A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080701160706.4pl3ba3e&show_article=1" href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080701160706.4pl3ba3e&show_article=1" style="font-size: 11px;">www.breitbart.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080701160706.4pl3ba3e&show_article=1"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD width="99%" valign="top">Americans are world's top drug users: study</TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080701160706.4pl3ba3e&show_article=1">Americans are the world's top consumers of cannabis and cocaine despite punitive US drug laws, according to an international study published in the online scientific magazine PLoS Medicine. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080701160706.4pl3ba3e&show_article=1"><P>             The study, released Monday, revealed that 16.2 percent of Americans had tried cocaine at least once, and 42.4 percent had used marijuana. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080701160706.4pl3ba3e&show_article=1"><P>              In second-place <A rel="nofollow" href="http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=New%20Zealand&sid=breitbart.com" class="lingo_link">New Zealand,</A> just 4.3 percent of study participants had used cocaine, and 41.9 percent marijuana. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; 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