"Spain is thus crossed, marked, damn drawn by these 'bars' ... For an exorbitant and unstoppable consumption of cocaine and the drug traffic of almost unimaginable. "Pilar de CambraIf Diogenes of Sinope was walking in Athens with a lantern looking for a man without finding him, the undersigned has not had much more luck in their search for a English media that have been swept up by hysteria planted by the UN in its annual report. Hysteria, I must say, very interested in the case of Spain and accompanied by an obscene message triumphalism with respect to the drug work of the International Narcotics Control. Try removing the headlines, point by point that generated the report in our country, the most striking to the most droll.
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" The rate of cocaine use in Spain than the U.S. '
press insists on ignoring the various types of use: experimental, occasional, habitual, frequent and daily . Moreover, the ideology denies any distinction between drug use and abuse, and the sum of these two factors comes the error. It is true that Spain beats U.S. in two tenths of a percent (0.2 percent) in sporadic use (at least once during a year), but it is also true, and so noted in the report's chapter dedicated cocaine (page 90), the percentage of problematic drug users, nearly triple the U.S. into English (1.4% vs 0.5%).
There is no doubt that the omitted factor is more important than leading the headlines, but the hype is like cocaine, once you start, you can not stop. Have been too many media that have been classified as "cocaine" to this 3 percent of the population aged 15 to 64 years, but nobody in their right mind would call an "alcoholic" to anyone who had had at least one glass of wine over a year. It is clear that the U.S. situation is far more worrying than ours, and surely will remain so for many years.
"The use of cocaine in Spain four times the European average"
has systematically forgotten that joining the European Union, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Malta and Cyprus in 2004, and Bulgaria and Romania in 2007, relates to Spain to quadruple the current European average consumption of cocaine. In the recently admitted Eastern European countries within the EU, the use of this drug is significantly lower than that of older members. As the UN report, if we limit ourselves to the above countries to these extensions, the ratio is twice the European average.
"More stripes in Miranda de Ebro in London"
... or the second city in the world in cocaine use after New York. Is more than justified the indignation of the Mirandeses, and many have pointed out that the greatest threat to public health in the city comes from pollution, a problem that will worsen with the forthcoming installation of two thermal power stations . But there is no moral panics about the harm suffered by all citizens alike (particularly acute for children ), and yes to some of them are inflicted by their habits more or less insane, but, unlike contamination provided volunteers. For if the owner was not absurd enough already, a recent study commissioned by the city of Miranda no trace of cocaine in the waters of the Ebro passing through this city.
"At last we are first in something"
a year ago, a record far more sad that this went unnoticed: our European leadership in prison population rate per 100,000 inhabitants. This brand, coupled with being the EU country with over 500 euro notes in circulation and where the real estate business closest to metastasis, also has much to do with drugs, money laundering, corruption and mafias, much as journalists are unable to relate these phenomena to each other. Mercedes Gallizo response to this outrageous growth of our prison population was, "If Spain decides it must be the country with more prisoners per capita, we assume. " Personally I prefer to triple the use of cocaine to continue to multiply exponentially the number of prisoners.
All this requires us to think that traditional media are becoming irrelevant, not only by his tendency to exaggerate, misrepresent and distort the facts, but because issues like this, any individual can access the data they ('professional information ') do not bother to look. Not for ENCOD has dived in the report and found a blatant distortion of the UN figures on hectares of coca
"Estimates of coca crops in the United Nations seems extremely low, while the U.S. office for the national policy of drug control indicates that there are 157,200 hectares of coca harvested in Colombia in 2006 , the UN stands at 78,000 hectares. "said at the outset that very few have been deeply concerned in this story. Three examples of reliable information in a sea of \u200b\u200bapathy, propaganda and complacency:
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Time Change - The World Drug Report UN suffers from delusions
- Cocaine in Spain: Truth and Lies
