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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Over 2m drug addicts in Iran
2005-11-28
TEHERAN — There are more than two million drug addicts in Iran, the Teheran Press yesterday quoted the Iranian police commander as saying. General Imaeil Ahmadi-Moqaddam said that the number of drug addicts in Iran stood around 2.2 million but the consumption of hard drugs including heroin and morphine was gradually dropping.

Iran is a major transit route for smuggling drugs from Afghanistan and Pakistan to markets in the Gulf and Europe.
Drug abuse is supposed to be a big no-no in the Moose-Limb world. But if the citizens are in despair over the way they're treated by the Mad Mullahs™ ...
Posted by:Steve White

#4  If I had to live in Iran, I would be 2,200,001.
Posted by: John Q. Citizen   2005-11-28 18:33  

#3  Iran's population is about 68 million. 2.2 million works out to... what? ... about 3% of the population? I wonder how that compares to the rest of the world.
Posted by: Pat Phillips   2005-11-28 12:05  

#2  LOL grom.
Posted by: Red Dog   2005-11-28 11:11  

#1  No beer.
Posted by: gromgoru   2005-11-28 01:35  

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