NCJ Number
214785
Date Published
2006
Length
220 pages
Annotation
In this volume, detailed statistical information is presented by the United Nations on the world drug market, specifically, the production, seizures, prices, and consumption of four drug markets.
Abstract
The global illicit cultivation of opium poppy from 1990 to 2005 in Southwest Asia (Afghanistan and Pakistan), Southeast Asia (Lao, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam), Latin America (Columbia and Mexico) and other countries declined from 262, 754 hectares in 1990 to 151,500 in 2005. The global illicit production of dry coca leaf declined in Bolivia, Columbia, and Peru from 319,200 metric tons in 1990 to 269,520 in 2005. These highlighted results are reported in the 2006 World Drug Report, Volume 2 providing global/worldwide statistical data on the production, seizures, prices, consumption, and data collection methodology on the issue of the world’s drug market. Information in the areas of production, seizures, prices, and consumption is specific to opium/heroin, coca/cocaine, cannabis, and amphetamine-type stimulants. However, in the area of consumption, the drug ecstasy is included, as well as treatment demand for primary drugs of abuse. Volume 1 of this report provides an analysis on the evolution and trends of the world drug markets focusing on the above stated drugs with special focus on the emergence of cannabis as the world’s largest and growing drug market. Tables and charts