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Gallimaufry was “taken aback” to discover that the US State Department's 2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report ranks Barbados as the second highest abuser of marijuana in the region.
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Just a correction; it’s not the US State Department report that ranks Barbados’s cannabis abuse, it’s the UN International Narcotics Control Board’s 2007 annual report.