Illegal drugs enjoyed by many of the young male Poles. Availability?

Many of the young, male Poles I know enjoy a smoke of weed and/or hash. They tell me it costs 30 zl per gram in Poland (considerably more than in England).

I haven't smoked in years but the conversations I hear verify this.

Some of the Poles are developing a taste for coke. One guy I work with supplies several of the Polish guys with a few grams each on Friday/Saturday nights.

How common is drug abuse in Poland?
Are heroin and crack starting to cause problems yet?

heroin has been around in PL for decades; hashish too.

If we were to look back in time to the communist era, what was Poland like in those days for illegal substances?

there were a few junkies out there but overall very few. most people got their fill with wódka, spirytus or bimber.

I noticed a few Junkies in Krakow. But compared to the amount of hard drug abusers you would see openly in a western European city of that size the amount was negligible.

At the moment I do volunteer work to gain experience/qualifications to start earning my living in the substance misuse field.
The fact I am learning Polish has been a fantastic door-opener because loads of new clients in UK are Polish lads.
Away from family structure. Bored after work. More money than they have ever had before....they're drifting into all the wrong passtimes.

It is my belief that has many return to Poland they will take their desire to use drugs with them and create the demand that will inevitably be met and supplied my any number of importers.

When the Irish economy took off and the Irish started returning in huge numbers the amounts of heroin deaths went from one of the smallest in EU to one of the highest.

apparently speed is popular in Poland and the manufacturing of chemical drugs is big business. high quality drugs made by gangs for export. a lot of the younger people like to smoke weed/ganga.

Drugs have been in Poland in large quantities since a really long time, so that's really not a new thing. Poland is also one of the biggest producers of synthetic drugs in the whole world, most is for export but a lot for domestic consumption.

There is a movie about Ryszard Riedel "Skazany na bluesa". Speaks more than a thousand words.
Amphetamine and opium poppy have always been quite popular, that hasn't changed much. And people have always been resourceful, everything based on Trichloroethylene could have been used for getting high (every single Polish person has heard about Butapren glue).

...and 30 zł is waaay too much, especially in large cities like Kraków, Warsaw or Wrocław.

Heroine and other opiats are not popular. In 80's situation was different ... opiats were more popular.

I think wódka is the big thing, someone once told me that wódka is the crack of Poland.

It used to be. Not now tho.

Someone who has told you that is as knowledgeable as yourself.

I think it is still big. When I was in Poland I saw some people in some states because of wódka and I think it's easy to draw an invisible line in your head into what you class as a drunken bum and a crack head.


Well I'm sorry. Did I claim to be an authority? No. I merely stated what I have been told and what I have seen so please no subliminal insults.

Not sure about crack but It is definately more hardcore stuff than most of so called soft drugs.

Amphetamine consumption in Europe

Lets have a look on Amphetamine production

drugscope.org.uk/newsandevents/newsarchivepages/november2005/cocaine-becoming-stimulent-drug-of-choice-for-many-young-europeans.htm

Weed should be legal.

It shouldn't be punished so restrictly but it should remain illegal.


According to the UN WHO study Poland ranks 26th in consumption of alcohol.

Rank Liters/Year Country
1 15.6 Luxembourg
2 13.7 Ireland
3 13.6 Hungary
4 13.2 Moldova, Rep
5 13.0 Czech Rep
6 12.3 Croatia
7 12.0 Germany
8 11.8 United Kingdom
9 11.7 Denmark
10 11.7 Spain
11 11.5 Portugal
12 11.4 France
13 11.1 Austria
14 10.8 Switzerland
15 10.6 Belgium
16 10.4 Slovakia
17 10.3 Russian Federation
18 9.9 Lithuania
19 9.7 Netherlands
20 9.7 Romania
21 9.6 Latvia
22 9.3 Finland
23 9.0 Bosnia and Herzegovina
24 9.0 Greece
25 8.6 Serbia and Montenegro
26 8.1 Poland
27 8.0 Italy
28 7.8 Estonia
29 7.0 Iceland
30 6.7 Slovenia
31 6.1 Ukraine
32 6.0 Malta
33 6.0 Sweden
34 5.9 Bulgaria
35 5.7 Macedonia, FYR
36 5.5 Belarus
37 5.5 Norway
38 4.4 Faeroe Islands
39 2.0 Albania

I disagree. It's late for me and I have things on my mind but remind me tomorrow and I will post my argument.

:)

If you are tall and skinny - dont smoke hash.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THC

If this statement is true then Poland is the only country on earth to buck the trend.
When opiates, like heroin, enter a market they grow to a peak over years until 'saturation' then level off. This means the users remain around the same amount. Each death is replaced by one, rather than the 2 or 3 new addicts that have replaced every dead addict in most European countries over the last 20 years. (See Hong Kong, New York for 'saturation').

Countries that have managed to reduce the use of street heroin have done it with draconian laws (Singapore, Malaysia) or a very expensive programme of state prescribed alternatives (Switzerland). I don't mean substitutes like methadone I mean Diamorphine (Pharmaceutical heroin).

Over the next 15 years Polands wealth will grow dramatically. People will have much more disposable cash. There will be a much bigger incentive to smuggle into Poland as an actual market.

In the past it was far more profitable to continue on to Germany or Scandinavia with the contraband.

If you were a party member,you could get two grams of coke.

There's the "third way" and that's what I think is happening here - don't look at ddicted with compassion, don't help them, spit at them, they will die quickly and others will think twice.

Drugs was never a huge problem in Poland but since there are so many ilegal immigrants comming in and buying ilegal paid marriages and doing there scams here it has become very serious. Watchout soon poland will be like the UK a mixed country with a lot of shittttt.

Looks like scapegoating to me.

Related:

HOW EASY IS IT TO GET DRUGS IN POLAND?


Anphetimines seem popular amongst the shaven headed, copper jewellery 20 year old BMW 316 brigade, Weed amongst students but ther doesnt seem to be the problem there is in the UK, No idea as to price as I despise drugs and their usage.

unfortunately its quite easy to obtain drugs.
to many junkies :/ (although its still harder than uk)