Infographic: synthetic cannabinoids notifications to the Early Warning System and seizures

This infographic coming from the publication New psychoactive substances: 25 years of early warning and response in Europe — an update from the EU Early Warning System presents some key statistics on notifications of the synthetic cannabinoids to the EWS and cannabinoids seizures (trends in the number and quantities seized), in the EU-27.

The source data for the graphics is available in the source tables on this page.

Number of synthetic cannabinoids notified for the first time, 2008-2021 (EU+2)
Trends in the number of cannabinoid seizures, 2008-2020 (EU)
Trends in the quantity of powders and herbal material seized, 2008-2020 (EU)
Number of powder seizures by substance, 2020 (EU)
Quantity of powders seized by substance, 2020 (EU)
Number of seizures of herbal material by substance, 2020 (EU)
Quantity of herbal material seized by substance, 2020 (EU)

Source data

Table 1: Number of synthetic cannabinoids notified for the first time, 2008-2021 (EU+2)
Year Notifications
2008 1
2009 9
2010 11
2011 23
2012 31
2013 29
2014 30
2015 24
2016 11
2017 10
2018 11
2019 8
2020 11
2021 15
Table 2: Trends in the number of cannabinoid seizures, 2008-2020 (EU)
Year 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Number of seizures 99 358 1006 1718 2820 9813 9601 7819 9941 8962 8729 6042 5711
Table 3: Trends in the quantity of powders and herbal material seized, 2008-2020 (EU)
Year Powders seized (kg) Herbal material seized (kg)
2008 0 0.306
2009 2.034 151.298
2010 41.11 134.321
2011 20.762 118.531
2012 341.108 71.256
2013 595.734 174.005
2014 419.119 206.559
2015 337.087 1560.226
2016 191.097 551.02
2017 149.957 158.567
2018 70.771 235.921
2019 82.602 112.704
2020 96.701 100.325
Table 4: Number of powder seizures by substance, 2020 (EU)
Substance Number of seizures powder
MDMB-4en-PINACA 103
4F-MDMB-BICA 41
5F-MDMB-PICA 156
5F-EMB-PICA 11
4F-MDMB-BINACA 67
Other 227
Table 5: Quantity of powders seized by substance, 2020 (EU)
MDMB-4en-PINACA 65.777
4F-MDMB-BICA 8.445
5F-MDMB-PICA 5.235
5F-EMB-PICA 4.156
4F-MDMB-BINACA 2.437
Other 10.651
Table 6: Number of seizures of herbal material by substance, 2020 (EU)
Substance Number of seizures of herbal material
MDMB-4en-PINACA 1246
5F-MDMB-PICA 1297
JWH-210 229
4F-MDMB-BINACA 812
5F-Cumyl-PeGaClone 219
Other 1303
Table 7: Quantity of herbal material seized by substance, 2020 (EU)
Substance Herbal material seized (kg)
MDMB-4en-PINACA 46.304
5F-MDMB-PICA 17.378
JWH-210 16.379
4F-MDMB-BINACA 6.116
5F-Cumyl-PeGaClone 3.38
Other 10.767
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