The UN's narcotics watchdog, the International Narcotics Control Board, has named

Cambodia as a "major supplier of cannabis to countries in the region and in

other parts of the world" in its 2002 annual report. The report also claimed

the country is a supply route for large amounts of heroin trafficked mainly to Australia,

and pointed to growing methamphetamine use among the local population as a problem.

The INCB urged Cambodia to ratify international drug control treaties "without

delay".