Drug Information

Here at your Natchez Police Department, we are concerned with the plague of drug abuse and its availability to the children of our areamore informed on the . We hope that these pages will help each individual to becoming danagers of drugs and drug abuse.

If you know of, have seen or heard of any activities concerning drugs and drug abuse, please call and let us know or email us.

We are here for you, to serve you and to protect you

Did you know:

The illegal drug industry ranks second to Exxon, just above General Motors and Mobile Oil- a $70 to $90 billion a year industry
Marijuana alone accounts for $18 to $26 billion of the illicit drug market
The drug paraphernalia business is a $2 billion a year industry
This year, among American High School seniors, 5.5% are daily users of marijuana and 5.5% are daily users of alcohol
Twenty-five percent of 12 to 17 years old have tired marijuana; 64% of 18 to 25 years old have tired marijuana; 23% of 26 years old and older have tired marijuana
Recent studies show that the smoking of five joints a week has the same effect on the respiratory system as smoking 112 tobacco cigarettes. Marijuana tar has more carcinogens than tobacco tar
Reaction time for motor skills, such as driving, is reduced by 42% after smoking one joint, and by 63% after smoking 2 joints.
Todays cultivated marijuana has an average potency of 10 to 15 times that of the marijuana of the 60's
There are over 7,000 published scientific and medical studies documenting the damage that marijuana does to the various systems of the body. Not one giving marijuana a clean bill of health
Marijuana is a complex material containing 421 known chemicals, 60 of which are found only in marijuana
Of all adults who drink, approximately one in 10 is likely to be a problem drinker
For every 10 wives who remain married to alcoholic husbands, only one husband remains with an alcoholic wife
The average begining age of alcohol use in the US among our youth is 12 1/2 years old
It is estimated that alcohol use plays a role in one third of all child abuse cases and 6 to 50% of marital violence cases

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Can You Name your drugs, give it a try and see how you do.