Charlotte MacDonald

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More or Less · Drinks and drugs capital of the world? (WS) · 6 Jul 2012 podcast

They just drank a lot more beer than usual in 2005. voice-verified

But there's another more important point to make here. voice-verified

While they seem to drink a lot of beer in Palau, it looks like they don't drink much of anything else. voice-verified

Which means when you look at the total amount of alcohol consumed, rather than just beer, Palau slips all the way down to 42nd place. voice-verified

It's actually the Czech Republic. voice-verified

Now, cannabis. voice-verified

The statistic which caught listener Dave's eye is that a quarter of Palawan adults are using it, which sounds like a lot. voice-verified

The Economist got the figure from the UN's World Drug Report, which has just been published. voice-verified

The two countries with the second highest cannabis usage are Italy and New Zealand. voice-verified

There, the report says, about 15% of adults are using it. voice-verified

But digging a little deeper into the figures, it turns out the UN weren't able to obtain survey data for adults in Palau. voice-verified

So instead, they used a survey of high school pupils and they extrapolated those results to get a figure for the whole adult population. voice-verified

Yeah, exactly, you would. voice-verified

And Palau is tiny, remember. voice-verified

In fact, it only has one state high school. voice-verified

So we're talking about a pretty small sample. voice-verified

But for what it's worth, the surveyors found that 60% of the teenage respondents in that state high school had used cannabis at least once. voice-verified

And almost 40% said they had used cannabis in the last month. voice-verified

So not just a high school, but a really high school. voice-verified

Well, quite. voice-verified

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