The cases of marijuana smuggling to China, especially from North America has witnessed a constant increase, according to the China National Narcotic Control Commission. Reports suggesting stoners of the world are getting high off cannabis mass-produced in China miss the point, a State narcotics control official said. The psychoactive component in Chinese hemp is so negligible as to render the crop largely useless for that purpose. The cultivation of industrial hemp in China falls under extremely strict supervision and has nothing to do with global drug abuse. Official crackdowns on illegal marijuana target foreign smuggling activities rather than domestic cultivation. Marijuana is smuggled not only in traditional cigarette or resin forms, but also in better-concealed brownies, biscuits and chocolate. China’s number of people using marijuana remains at a low level compared to that in Europe and the North America, but it is expanding over recent years under the impact of the legalization of the illicit drug on foreign soil.

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