Pot tops liquor in help call

presenting for treatment. Marijuana now accounts for 39 per cent of treatment episodes for “own drug use” in 2015-16.

Alcohol has been the primary drug Queenslanders sought help for since 2009-10 and remains the most common drug for which people get treatment in all other states.

But the report shows the gap between treatment episodes provided for booze compared to dope shrunk to just two per cent in 2014-15, when more treatments for cannabis as the “principal drug of concern” were provided for the first time. In 2015-16 alcohol accounted for fewer than 27 per cent of treatment episodes, followed by amphetamines (17 per cent).