The U.S. may lag other countries in measures such as education and health, but we’re out in front on cocaine and marijuana use. Cocaine and marijuana have been tried by more Americans than residents of 16 other countries surveyed, according to a paper published in PLoS Medicine.

Researchers found that 42.4% of Americans have tried marijuana and 16.2% have tried cocaine.

That's just how we roll here in the USA, I guess. Weirdly, in Holland, where you can just walk into a shop and buy a gram or two, only 19.8% of the people have tried pot, a distant third behind New Zealand's 41.9%. Bloomberg has a good writeup, and a table with the complete findings is online here. GO USA! ;)

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