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Germany: the Internet and ′legal highs′ mean ′we′re not out of the tunnel yet′

Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 06/04/2015 - 09:30

Heroin is in decline, but cannabis and "new drugs" pose Europe's biggest drugs challenge. Wolfgang Götz, director of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction on the agencies latest report.

Wolfgang Götz: Over the last 20 years, when you asked, "Who were the people going into drug treatment for the first time," clearly these were heroin users. For two years now the dominant number is people who have cannabis as their main drug, which is quite new. We can also see in some cases - now and then - cannabis users in emergency rooms, and this is largely due to this high-quality cannabis, with high THC values.

I'm talking about herbal cannabis, which is produced largely in Europe. And now more and more, it's the imported type, which is cannabis resin or hashish, coming to a large extent from Morocco. Also there we now have these high [THC]...

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