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The statistics show that in 2000, almost 20% of the country's young adults were using marijuana whereas the most recent figures, from 2013, indicate that this has dropped to just above 10%.
When first embarking on this research, the question was simple: has Britain fallen out of love with cannabis? The answer, however, was not so clear.
To put it in a nutshell; no one knows, and some even question the accuracy of the report. Even UK Focal Point – the sector of Public Health England which monitors drug use for the EMCDDA bases its report on – could not give a reason why the usage figure had almost halved.
The most popular theories include harsher penalties...
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