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OTTAWA -- Edmonton's military base is Number 2 in Canada for drug busts, says a Department of National Defence report. And there's rising concern with methamphetamine use in the ranks posted to Prairie provinces, says another newly released document.

The two separate military police Criminal Intelligence Program reports obtained by Sun Media state that across Canada, drug abuse by Canadian Forces members is rising, although it's sharply below rates in the civilian population.

"The trends illustrated in this report give indication that incidents of illicit drug usage by Canadian Forces members or other persons on DND property will continue to rise, including the cultivation of Marijuana," a July 2003 report says.

And a January 2004 report says, "Illicit drug occurrences continue to increase at bases across Canada."

In 2003 military police laid drug charges in nearly 30 cases.

The Canadian Forces has a zero tolerance policy towards drug consumption in its ranks.

The intelligence reports say those soldiers caught with drugs are sometimes trafficking and secretly growing the weed, especially at CFB Greenwood in Nova Scotia.

From January 2002 to 2004, military police shut down 18 grow operations on bases across Canada, statistics show.

Capt. Mark Giles, National Investigation Service spokesman, said an improved offence-tracking system is to blame for a perceived spike in drug offences.

"And there has also been in the past year or two an increase in drug enforcement," Giles said, adding the military is "satisfied that the vast majority of Canadian Forces and DND personnel are not involved in drugs."

According to the 2003 criminal intelligence report, most drug charges are laid against troops at CFB Esquimalt in B.C., followed by CFB Edmonton.

"Although cannabis is statistically the choice drug among users, there's a growing emergence of methamphetamine in the Prairie provinces," the 2004 report says.

"Meth is a highly addictive stimulant and is slowly becoming the choice of drug among illicit drug users in the Canadian Forces."

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Buzzby

That certainly sounds like a Major Drug Problem to me!

Just how big (or small) is the Canadian military?

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Plainsman1963

Around 60,000 regular troops and 20,000 reservists.