In a report by the International Narcotics Control Board, the UN agency harshly condemned drug use by celebrities and the lack of enforcement actions taken against them.

From CNN:

Cocaine-abusing celebrities are glamorizing the use of narcotics and encouraging more young people to use illegal substances, the United Nations drug control agency has warned.The annual report from the International Narcotics Control Board warns that treating stars “leniently” by allowing them to get away with drug crimes undermines faith in the criminal justice system and has a damaging effect on adolescents.

“They get more lenient responses by the judiciary and law enforcement, and that is regrettable,” Professor Hamid Ghodse, a member of the INCB, told the UK’s Press Association Wednesday. “There should not be any difference between a celebrity who is breaking the law and non-celebrities.

“Not only does it give the wrong messages to young people, who are quite impressionable, but the wider public becomes cynical about the responses to drug offenders,” Ghodse said.

Although no celebrities were named specifically in the report, it isn’t difficult to find examples celebrities using drugs, such as Grammy winning singer Amy Winehouse smoking crack on video.

Read the entire report here.

The global drug trade is a $321.6 billion.