Drugs in the U.S.

The United States has the highest level of illegal drug use in the world. Americans have been reported to have the highest level of cocaine and marijuana use. An estimated twenty seven million Americans age twelve or older used an illegal drug in the past thirty days. This estimate represents eight percent of the population age twelve years old or older. Twenty two million people in the United States use illegal drugs, that’s nine percent of the U.S. population. Just last year, there were one million five hundred sixty one thousand two hundred thirty one total number of drug arrests. For possession of a drug, marijuana and cocaine were the highest carried drug. For the selling or manufacturing of drugs, cocaine and heroin