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UK: The UKP 6.6bn Illegal Trade
ccguide Monday 11 Feb 2002 Pubdate: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 Source: Guardian, The (UK) Copyright: 2002 Guardian Newspapers Limited Contact: Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardian/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/175 THE UKP 6.6BN ILLEGAL TRADE Statistics On Cannabis In The UK In the British Crime Survey 2000 cannabis was the most commonly used drug More than 3m people spend a total of more than UKP 6.6bn a year on illegal drugs, according to Home Office figures Cannabis smokers spend an average of UKP 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%. - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake
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