A more liberal approach to marijuana use over the past three years has cut the number of users in England and Wales by 600,000.
An estimated 2.775 million people aged from 16 to 59 in England and Wales used cannabis in the year up to April 2006 – 8.7 per cent of that age group. This is the lowest level in the past 10 years when figures have been collected by the British Crime Survey….
Even in 16 to 24-year-olds, where drug abuse is more commonplace, the use of cannabis has significantly declined. In 1998, 28.2 per cent of that age group were estimated to have taken cannabis. That figure has dropped to 21.4 per cent, or 1.338 million, in the past year.
Some degree of commonsense has prevailed and the effects are obvious. Now if only the commonsense could be extended to total decrmininalisation…
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