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Philippines Daily Inquirer
Philippines Daily Inquirer
Marijuana is now the most abused illegal drug in the country, overtaking crystal meth (shabu), according to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA). PDEA chief Director General Wilkins Villanueva said in a statement on Friday that it was “now the dominant drug in the country as shown by the massive volume seizures in 2021 and the survey result of the Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB) in 2019.” The poll that he referred to was the National Household Survey on the Patterns and Trends of Drug Abuse, conducted in 2019 by the Department of Social Welfare and Development and whose results were relea…