Marijuana is the most popular drug in Slovakia

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Young Slovaks find marijuana appealing, with approximately 40 percent of respondents aged 15-24 experimenting with the drug last year, according to a European school survey on alcohol and drugs carried out on a sample of 10,000 students.

Some young people do not use marijuana just occasionally, but smoke it on a daily basis, Imrich Šteliar of the National Monitoring Centre for Drugs (NMCD) said at a press conference in Bratislava on May 31. Cannabis is the only illegal drug that sees long-term growing popularity, mostly on the account of being cheap, easily accessible and the fact that people long for unusual experiences, he added, as reported by the TASR newswire.

Marijuana represents the most popular drug in Slovakia, accessible to users in rural settings, towns and cities and festivals. However, also growing is the number of people seeking treatment due to cannabis-related problems: there were 500 patients treated in 2015...

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