{"id":12189,"date":"2010-02-20T17:42:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T15:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=12189"},"modified":"2015-11-30T11:07:31","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T09:07:31","slug":"drug-use-doubled-over-last-three-years-in-cyprus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/20\/drug-use-doubled-over-last-three-years-in-cyprus\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug use doubled over last three years in Cyprus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Cyprus Mail<\/a> runs an article with some statistics of drug use in Cyprus. \u00a0It is said that drug use doubled over the last three years. \u00a0That’s not too good. \u00a0But the report itself is hard to understand – quotes say one thing and numbers say another. \u00a0For example:<\/p>\n

\u201cCannabis is not so fashionable anymore among young people,\u201d said EKTEPN head Neoclis Georgiadis. \u201cThe United States and Europe had their [cannabis] peak in the nineties, our peak was in 2004. We are ten years behind Western Europe.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s on one hand. \u00a0And on the other:<\/p>\n

THE PERCENTAGE of cocaine and cannabis users in Cyprus doubled between 2006 and 2009 with more women using, and a hike from zero to 1.6 per cent in the 55-64 age group taking up cannabis, it emerged yesterday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Judging by what I can only see around myself, cannabis use more than doubled. \u00a0People who were occasional users before seem to do it more often, and those who wouldn’t even think about smoking pot just a few years ago, seem to welcome an opportunity now. \u00a0Also, on a few occasions where I could observe the high-school generation, I was rather surprised as to how familiar they are with the drug, how easily they can access it and how integrated it is with their culture. \u00a0I obviously can’t compare it to my own high-school years, but I’d says that even during my college years in this country the situation wasn’t the same.<\/p>\n

And for the record, since I did mention cannabis<\/a>, I have to say that I was pretty much neutral on the legalization issue for a long time. \u00a0Now I am more inclined towards legalizing it. \u00a0However, it should be clearly separated from the rest of the drugs, which should remain illegal. \u00a0And I do think that there is a whole lot of education to be done if legalization is to be considered. \u00a0Here is a place to start – real facts about drugs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Cyprus Mail runs an article with some statistics of drug use in Cyprus. \u00a0It is said that drug use doubled over the last three years. \u00a0That’s not too good. \u00a0But the report itself is hard to understand – quotes say one thing and numbers say another. \u00a0For example: \u201cCannabis is not so fashionable anymore among … Continue reading Drug use doubled over last three years in Cyprus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,22],"tags":[430,350,432],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-12189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-cyprus","tag-drugs","tag-health","tag-marijuana"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12733,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/18\/whats-wrong-with-airlines-today\/","url_meta":{"origin":12189,"position":0},"title":"What’s wrong with airlines today?","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 18, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I think there is something wrong with airlines, their policies, and their price making. \u00a0Here is one example. \u00a0I was looking for the cheapest way to get from Larnaca, Cyprus to Athens, Greece on Saturday, September 25th, 2010. \u00a0One of the lowest prices was offered by Aegean Airlines - 42\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/airlines.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":29081,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/11\/cyprus-national-internet-portal-for-open-data\/","url_meta":{"origin":12189,"position":1},"title":"Cyprus National Internet Portal for Open Data","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"December 11, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"It is via this Cyprus Mail article that I've learned that not only Cyprus has an official Open Data portal, but that it's also the best in Europe: Cyprus is one of the top five European Union countries in the field of Open Data for 2018, while the new National\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/open-data.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/open-data.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/open-data.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/open-data.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":24654,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2015\/08\/26\/cyprus-has-lowest-crime-rate-in-eu\/","url_meta":{"origin":12189,"position":2},"title":"Cyprus has lowest crime rate in EU","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"August 26, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"In Cyprus runs the story covering some criminal statistics of European Union in general, and Cyprus in particular. \u00a0There are some analysis to the numbers and some breakdown by type of crime and so on. 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