The most popular highs of Europe

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction has revealed that more than 15.5 million Europeans have used cocaine at least once in a lifetime. Official statistics have shown that cocaine has become the most commonly used stimulant drug in Europe since the past 10 years. Followed by cocaine, cannabis is officially known to have been used by more than 80.5 million Europeans at least once in their life - that means almost one in four 15-64 year-olds. However, cannabis is mainly used by young people. It is also essential to note that cannabis used to be the most popular highs of Europe. The European average lifetime and last year use of cannabis stands at 32.5% and 12.4% respectively. Australia, Canada and the US all recorded higher than average rates. Ahead of all, researchers have recorded 57 new legal highs in 2012 with the EU's early warning system reporting the appearance of more than one new psychoactive drug on the market every week! Besides, various reports have demonstrated that the rise of legal highs is being driven by an explosion in the number of online retailers selling the new drugs in Europe...