Pubdate: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 Source: Daily Record and Sunday Mail (UK) Copyright: 2000 Daily Record and Sunday Mail Ltd. Contact: Anderston Quay, Glasgow, Scotland, G3 8DA Website: http://www.record-mail.co.uk/rm/ BRITAIN TOPS EUROPE POLL ON DRUG USE BRITAIN is the dope-smoking capital of Europe with one in 10 adults using cannabis in the past year, it was revealed yesterday. Research by the EU's drugs monitoring agency also found drug-taking among youngsters is more common in Scotland than in England. In a survey of 5000 children, 19 per cent of boys and 16 per cent of girls aged 11 to 15 had taken drugs in Scotland. Around half of 16-year-olds had tried cannabis. But the figures were a third lower south of the Border. Recent surveys show a third of the population feel cannabis should be decriminalised. - --- MAP posted-by: Derek Rea