Beijing says US and Canadian legalization of marijuana is a 'threat to China'
Beijing Beijing's leading drug enforcement body has blamed the legalization of marijuana in Canada and parts of the United States for a spike in the amount of drugs smuggled into the country, describing it as a"new threat to China."
At a press conference in Beijing Monday, Liu Yuejin, deputy director of the China National Narcotics Control Commission, said that the number of cannabis users in China had grown by more than 25% in 2018, rising to about 24,000 people."In two years, we have found increasing cannabis trafficked from North America to China," he said, though he conceded there were"few cannabis abusers in China" relative to the total population.
Where does America's heroin come from? 01:45Fentanyl is about 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine and 30 to 50 times more potent than heroin. According to the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention, it was linked to one in four overdose deaths in the US in 2018.US President Donald Trump has previously accused China of being behind the US opioid crisis, saying in August 2018 that fentanyl was"pouring into the US postal system.
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