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UK: The £6.6bn illegal trade
The Guardian Saturday 09 Feb 2002 - In the British Crime Survey 2000 cannabis was the most commonly used drug - More than 3m people spend a total of more than £6.6bn a year on illegal drugs, according to Home Office figures - Cannabis smokers spend an average of £498 a year - Home Office figures suggest that there are 3.1m occasional smokers of cannabis in Britain - Of the 9.5m people aged 16 to 29 in England and Wales at least 2.3m would have used a prohibited drug in the last year - Between 30% and 40% of 15 and 16-year-olds report using cannabis, according to the charity Drugscope - A survey of 20,000 British youngsters last year found that one in nine 16-year-old boys who admitted using drugs said they did so every day - Britain has the toughest drug laws in the whole of Europe and has one of the highest levels of users - In Amsterdam, where cannabis is decriminalised, 55% of people who say they have tried cannabis only end up using it a couple of dozen times or less - In the Brixton pilot study 450 warnings were issued in 2001 compared with 324 arrests in 2000 - 1,350 hours of police time were saved. This is equivalent to the borough receiving 1.8 extra full-time officers - Arrests for dealing cannabis increased by 11%.
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