Cannabis use has risen with legalisation and Covid-19 lockdowns — UN report

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Places including US states that have legalized cannabis appear to have increased its regular use, while Covid lockdowns had a similar effect, raising the risk of depression and suicide, a UN report said on Monday.

“The proportion of people with psychiatric disorders and suicides associated with regular cannabis use has increased.”Places including US states that have legalised cannabis appear to have increased its regular use, while Covid-19 lockdowns had a similar effect, raising the risk of depression and suicide, a UN report said on Monday.

Various US states have legalised non-medical use of cannabis, starting with Washington and Colorado in 2012. Uruguay legalised it in 2013, as did Canada in 2018. Others have taken similar steps but the report focused on those three countries. While the prevalence of cannabis use among teenagers “has not changed much”, there had been “a pronounced increase in reported frequent use of high-potency products among young adults”, it said.

The report said roughly 284 million people, or 5.6% of the world's population, had used a drug such as heroin, cocaine, amphetamines or ecstasy in 2020, the most recent data available. Of those, 209 million used cannabis.

 

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