> "The drug stats are not down. It's created more addicts." This isn't really correct, certainly not the way you've stated it. The data you're probably think

> "The drug stats are not down. It's created more addicts." This isn't really correct, certainly not the way you've stated it. The data you're probably thinking of point to a slight rise in "lifetime use". Almost all of that is cannabis use. The only significant effect shown by the data is that there has been a ~5% rise in the number of people who regularly use cannabis, and are expected to continue in the future. Twisting this into "created more addicts" is a bit tabloid, don't you think?