Scotland leads the world....

I assume this is counting only the people that got caught. I mean, I got away with drug crimes far too many times to count.
 
What a load of crap. According to this, Iran would be the second-largest drug-using nation.

This has nothing whatsoever to do with how many people are using drugs illegally, or how many are actually involved in drug crime; it reveals only the proportion of the population that is caught.

Iran has a very strict zero-tolerance policy, and very strict laws, combined with very aggressive enforcement. Compare that with a country like Columbia, where in some areas drug lords have more power than the police.

And what about countries like the Netherlands, or Canada, where drug laws are much more liberal, and things that would constitute 'drug crimes' in other countries are only misdemeanors, or completely legal...again, such uses wouldn't show up in these statistics at all.

Why Scotland came out on top is a little beyond me (I would've expected the U.S. and Iran to be higher, considering their aggressive attitudes towards drugs)...but certainly it doesn't indicate that Scotland leads the world in drug crimes!
 
I would like to read the study.

We do have a large recreational drug culture. Mephdrone is the new big thing which is a legal high. Replacing cocaine and E as the drug of choice.

There are large pockets of heroin abusers in the main cities and also places like Peterhead.
 
They compared 70 countries out of 195 countries in the world, but in the absence of more data, we're #1.

How else are they going to come by statistics, if not from crime records? When was the last time Gallup took a poll in the high street asking 'Do you take drugs? (And can you get me some?)'
 
When did "drug crime" become a winter olympics sport?
 
funk de fino said:
I would like to read the study.

We do have a large recreational drug culture. Mephdrone is the new big thing which is a legal high. Replacing cocaine and E as the drug of choice.

There are large pockets of heroin abusers in the main cities and also places like Peterhead.
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I'm shocked... there are places like Peterhead??
 
Wolfman said:
What a load of crap. According to this, Iran would be the second-largest drug-using nation.

This has nothing whatsoever to do with how many people are using drugs illegally, or how many are actually involved in drug crime; it reveals only the proportion of the population that is caught.
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There might be a strong culture of drug use in Iran that the Islamist gubmint is trying to stamp out.

I know some very well-behaved upper-middle class Persians who smoke opium.
 
Rolfe said:
Fraserburgh?

Rolfe.
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Please, please....sometimes I still wake up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night, some 17 years since my last (and only) visit.

Great design for the lighthouse museum roof, mind.
 
I have heard for a long time that the sheep in Scotland were nervous. I never knew before now it was due them being cokeheads, though.
 
Eddie Dane said:
There might be a strong culture of drug use in Iran that the Islamist gubmint is trying to stamp out.

I know some very well-behaved upper-middle class Persians who smoke opium.
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Drug laws in Iran are extremely strict...if there is a strong culture of drug use (and among the Iranians I've known, there certainly isn't), they're risking their lives to do it. And regarding those Persians...are they smoking their opium in a country that has strict laws where they face a high risk of life-time imprisonment or death? Or are they doing it in a country where there's significantly less risk?
 
I saw a documentary a few years ago.. sort of an inside look at Iran.. and I was surprised to learn that there is a very big drug problem (or at least culture) there; mainly opiates IIRC.
Probably just doesn't get into the mainstream Iranian media (embarrassment) or the international media (them having drug problems would be a rather optimistic casus belli for us to go in there and rescue them from their oil heroin.. so who cares?).
 
Wolfman said:
Drug laws in Iran are extremely strict...if there is a strong culture of drug use (and among the Iranians I've known, there certainly isn't), they're risking their lives to do it. And regarding those Persians...are they smoking their opium in a country that has strict laws where they face a high risk of life-time imprisonment or death? Or are they doing it in a country where there's significantly less risk?
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They live in Europe.
But I know of at least one family member back in Iran that had addiction problems with the stuff.

Incidently. There is a video floating around the Interwebs of an Iranian kid of about ten years old, seriously farked up on opium. And by the looks of it, he's being filmed by a giggling family member. Anecdotal, I know.
But I suspect there is a lot of opium use going on in Iran.
 
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