Top Ten Countries with Largest Army. The map of top ten countries with largest armies is based on the number of army personnels in a country. Top countries include China, USA, India and Russia.
The global war on drugs began in 1961, when the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs was established in order to create a drug-free world.. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime puts out an annual World Drug Report wherein they examine trends in drug use and production.
In the late 1980s, a political hysteria about drugs led to the passage of draconian penalties in Congress and state legislatures that rapidly increased the prison population. In 1985, the proportion of Americans polled who saw drug abuse as the nation's number one problem was just 2-6 percent. Brief History of the Drug War. Many currently illegal drugs, such as marijuana, opium, coca, and psychedelics have been used for thousands of years for both medical and spiritual purposes.