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Europe has gone to pot: marijuana still most popular drug in the EU

2015-06-05 33 Dailymotion

Marijuana is still the most-used drug in Europe, according to a new EU report released on Thursday.<br /><br /> Seventy-nine million Europeans have tried it at some point in their lives, experts at the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction found in a study of legal and illegal narcotics use across the continent.<br /><br /> Marijuana – or pot – which accounts for 80 per cent of drug seizures on the continent and 60 per cent of all reported drug offences. <br /><br /> The same study found that cocaine is the second most popular drug in Europe; it has been used by some 15.6 million people.<br /><br /> The experts behind the report also said that banning ‘legal highs’ will only force the trade underground.<br /><br /> Authorities find it out difficult to crack down on these psychoactive substances because many of them are so new that they are not covered by existing anti-drug legislation.<br /><br /> The agency said two new legal highs were being discovered each week. It said as many as 101 such substances came onto to the Europe

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