News (Media Awareness Project) - UK: Britain Tops Europe Poll On Drug Use |
| Title: | UK: Britain Tops Europe Poll On Drug Use |
| Published On: | 2000-01-24 |
| Source: | Daily Record and Sunday Mail (UK) |
| Fetched On: | 2008-09-05 05:37:15 |
BRITAIN TOPS EUROPE POLL ON DRUG USE
BRITAIN is the dope-smoking capital of Europe with one in 10 adults
using cannabis in the past year, it was revealed yesterday.
Research by the EU's drugs monitoring agency also found drug-taking
among youngsters is more common in Scotland than in England.
In a survey of 5000 children, 19 per cent of boys and 16 per cent of
girls aged 11 to 15 had taken drugs in Scotland.
Around half of 16-year-olds had tried cannabis.
But the figures were a third lower south of the Border.
Recent surveys show a third of the population feel cannabis should be
decriminalised.
BRITAIN is the dope-smoking capital of Europe with one in 10 adults
using cannabis in the past year, it was revealed yesterday.
Research by the EU's drugs monitoring agency also found drug-taking
among youngsters is more common in Scotland than in England.
In a survey of 5000 children, 19 per cent of boys and 16 per cent of
girls aged 11 to 15 had taken drugs in Scotland.
Around half of 16-year-olds had tried cannabis.
But the figures were a third lower south of the Border.
Recent surveys show a third of the population feel cannabis should be
decriminalised.
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