Word: marijuana
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Cocaine prices are up. The number of drug overdoses is down. Marijuana is relatively scarce. Surveys indicate that "casual" drug use in the U.S. is declining. Latin America's top drug kingpins are on the run. Federal antidrug spending is at an all-time high ($9.5 billion planned for this year...
College students may be holding off marijuana, cocaine and tobacco, but the tradition of binge drinking hasn't lost its appeal, according to a new study from the Harvard School of Public health...
Meanwhile, smoking had dropped to about half of what it was in 1977, to 12 percent in men and 19 percent in women, and marijuana and cocaine use decreased considerably...
...most publicized mission, code-named Operation Green Sweep, 200 soldiers spread into Bureau of Land Management federal conservation land in northern California, seizing around 1000 marijuana plants in 10 days of raids...
This is not to say drugs are not a major problem here as well. Among the largest cash crops in California, marijuana garners its own circles of underworld figures and exploiters...