MPs call for cannabis to be legalised
This month’s American election saw two further states legalise cannabis – and a group of MPs from all parties, led by former deputy prime minster Nick Clegg and former health minister Norman Lamb says we should follow suit.
The MPs backed an Adam Smith Institute and Volteface study which argues that Britain’s ‘dark ages’ drugs policy has failed to stop people drugs being manufactured and used, and to stop associated crime, corruption and killing.
A legal cannabis market could be worth £6.8 billion to the economy annually, potentially netting between £750 million and £1.05 billion in tax revenues and reduced criminal justice costs.
The number of offenders in prison for cannabis-related offences in England and Wales would also likely drop from the current 1,363, who cost taxpayers £50 million a year, the report said.
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