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UK: Illegal drug use rises among the middle aged

Submitted by Marijuana News on Wed, 08/19/2015 - 08:45

Drug use among young adults continues to fall but their parents buck the trend

Middle-aged parents are increasingly smoking cannabis while their children are giving up the drug, a Home Office report has revealed.

Illegal drug use has steadily increased amongst the 40 and 59 age group over the last 18 years, according to the figures.

The proportion of those people who admit having taken drugs has risen from 2.5 per cent in 1996 to 3.6 per cent.

By comparison, drug use has fallen among the young, with 17.4 per cent saying they had taken drugs in 1996 compared to 13 per cent in 2014-15.

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Experts said the figures suggested that many who took drugs in their youth in the 1960s and 1970s had continued to do so and that they had becomean integral part of their lifestyle.

Harry Shapiro,...

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