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It is well accepted that non-ideal MHD effects have an important role to play
in the dynamics of molecular clouds. They influence both the
gravitational collapse of these clouds, and the turbulence occurring within
them. We present and discuss the results of recently performed simulations of
4-fluid, driven MHD turbulence with parameters chosen to match observed
molecular clouds. In particular, the power spectra of multifluid
MHD turbulence are compared with those of ideal MHD, and the probability
density functions of the mass density for the charged and neutral species are
considered. The model of Li \& Houde (2008) is discussed in the context of
these results. A simulated ``ambipolar lengthscale'' is calculated based on
their model and compared with the actual ambipolar lengthscale in the
simulations.
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