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Majority of High School Students Who Are Infrequent Marijuana Users Say They Would Not Use If Marijuana Were Legal; Frequent Users More Likely to Report They Would Use as Often or More Often

Part two in this report, entitled “European status report on alcohol and health 2014”, is now available and presents alcohol policy data for all 53 Member States in the WHO European Region. The chapters are categorizedaccording to the 10 action areas of the "European action plan to reduce the harmful use of alcohol 2012–2020"

The chapters can be accessed at:

How many new drugs were detected in Europe over the last year? Is cannabis getting stronger? How many Europeans have ever used an illicit drug? What are the latest drug policy developments in the region? These are just some of the questions explored in the European Drug Report: Trends and developments. This report provides a top-level overview of the long-term drug-related trends and developments at European level, while homing in on emerging problems in specific countries. Such a perspective is valuable, as it allows differing national experiences to be understood within the broader European context.

Full title: Commentary: David Cameron and te death of responsability for alcohol policy.

Paper by Peter Anderson. Published in BMJ in January 2014.

Full title: How a minimum unit price for alcohol was scuppered.

Paper by Ian Gilmore and Mike Daube. Published in BMJ in January 2014.