“Have you consumed cannabis in the past 30 days?” Survey of 15-16 year olds europeans. At the top it is explained that consumption is highest in Italy even though it’s illegal.

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  1. I was having a walk in a big Italian city with a friend from Russia, on a weekend night. He was surprised by the marijuana smell that frequently reached us, in the open, from groups in the parks, in the streets. Smoking openly could be risky, but so common nonetheless.

  2. You know what they say! When something is illegal all the kids want to do it.
    In my opinion Italy is a great place to do it so when you have the munchies you have a large variety of Italian delicacies. 😉

  3. I do not believe the data from Portugal, it is literally the country where I have been offered marijuana the most times on the street.

  4. Never realized we’re the designated potheads of the Balkans. Makes sense when I think about it. Would want to see Albania’s stats though, they’re renowned for their weed in these parts.

  5. Il primo posto ben meritato! Quando facevo lo scambio in Italia come 17enne era totalmente comune tra i ragazzi di fumare l’erba durante la pausa (liceo linguistico…) e immagino che non sia cambiato.

  6. By making it illegal only the criminals largely benefit from it. If it would be made legal then we could have safer versions and the government would be able to get sale taxes from it, further incentivizing production of a high quality breed.

  7. >At the top it is explained that consumption is highest in Italy even though it’s illegal.

    No correlation between the two. It’s also illegal in Sweden and enforced even. Yet it’s on the low end of the scale. It’s illegal in Ukraine too but unenforced and the lowest part of the scale.

    Kosovo smuggles tons of it and yet…

  8. It’s illegal in almost all of these countries, and actually Italy is one of the few where it’s decriminalised.

  9. In Ukraine and Kosovo the rate is low because kids cannot afford it… and in Iceland it is too cold so it does not grow and also hard to import?

  10. What’s up with Portugal here? Either they must be all on horse at 15 or there’s something wrong with this map.

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