Cannabis sales in EU raise $13 billion for crime gangs
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Europeans spent at least 11.6 billion euros (£9.9 billion) in 2017 on illegal cannabis purchases, confirming marijuana as the largest drugs market in the 28-country European Union, the bloc's anti-drugs agency said on Tuesday.In its annual report, the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) said the EU's overall narcotics market was worth at least 30 billion euros in 2017, up from 24 billion in 2013.The global market for illicit drugs was estimated..