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Enforcement 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea

Drugs-for-arms barter reported as PNG tops Oceanian cannabis use

Reports described barter trade exchanging illicit drugs for arms in the coastal cities of Lae, Madang, Wewak and Port Moresby.[1] Papua New Guinea shared with Micronesia the highest prevalence of cannabis abuse in Oceania, and cannabis plants were also illicitly cultivated in Fiji, Samoa and Tonga.[1]

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References

  1. Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2006 (E/INCB/2006/1)United Nations · 2007 · Oceania chapter; drugs-for-arms barter in PNG coastal cities, highest regional cannabis prevalence shared with Micronesia, cultivation across the subregionarchived

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