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UK: Cannabis "Normal" For Youths

Daily Telegraph

Tuesday 09 Oct 2001

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Heavy smoking, drinking and the occasional use
of cannabis are firmly established as "normal"
among teenagers across the UK, it is claimed.

A study has found that the UK's youth has a
"serious problem" with drinking and smoking.

A third of all girls surveyed and 39.5% of boys
had used some form of drug, most commonly
cannabis. Overall, only 6.2% had never drunk
alcohol and most (72%) had at some time been
intoxicated.

Drug use was most common among boys in Scotland
and least common in Wales and Northern Ireland.

The 1999 study, carried out by the Alcohol and
Health Research Centre in Edinburgh, surveyed
1,361 girls and 1,280 boys attending 223 state
and private schools across the UK.

It concludes: "These behaviours are firmly
established as normative among teenagers
throughout the UK."

 

 

 

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