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The UN highlighted recently that the Covid pandemic fueled a major increase in drug use worldwide. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) was specifically aimed at the rise in the use of cannabis during the current pandemic. The finding of this survey should not surprise us. Indeed, many people experienced a period when they were confined to their homes. Let us also recall that the partial unemployment was at the highest. Was it not an "ideal period" to discover cannabis or to use more of it ? It is true that the reputation of cannabis is that of a soft drug with insignifiant health effects. The UNODC 2021 report stressed that around 275 million people used drugs worldwide (at the end of 2019). Here are the key numbers: -Between 2010 and 2019 the number of people using drugs increased by 22%- Roughly 200 million people used cannabis in 2019 representing 4% of the global population - An estimated 20 million people used cocaine in 2019 (0.4% of the global population) -The number of new psychoactive substances found at global level reaches the figure of 541. Moreover, and this is of course very worrying the percentage of adolescents that perceived cannabis as harmful declined by 40% in the USA and by 25% in Europe. It must also be stressed that cannabis has become increasingly accessible over the past two decades. Unfortunately drug use has a bright future ahead of it. A growing level of stress in times of pandemic is an obvious cause of increased consumption of drugs.

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