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Why Won’t People Face the Evidence on Legalising Cannabis?
Why Won’t People Face the Evidence on Legalising Cannabis?
A new study by the Treasury has revealed that legalising cannabiswould
have huge economic benefits for the UK. The move would raise hundreds
of millions of pounds in taxes and ease the burden on the criminal
justice system.
This comes on the back of growing evidence that cannabis – like many recreational drugs – is often no more dangerous than alcohol or smoking cigarettes. Even where studies identify links between cannabis use at a young age and mental illness, such dangers would be better addressed in a regulated market with proper health warnings and checks on the age of buyers.
But at the level of government, reasonable debate often doesn’t seem to come into it. In 2009 Professor David Nutt was sacked as a government adviser for comments he had made in an academic journal about the dangers of ecstasy.
Nutt wrote that taking the drug is no more dangerous than horse-riding.
Jacqui Smith, Home Secretary at the time, ordered Nutt to apologise.
– Read the entire article at The Independent.
This comes on the back of growing evidence that cannabis – like many recreational drugs – is often no more dangerous than alcohol or smoking cigarettes. Even where studies identify links between cannabis use at a young age and mental illness, such dangers would be better addressed in a regulated market with proper health warnings and checks on the age of buyers.
But at the level of government, reasonable debate often doesn’t seem to come into it. In 2009 Professor David Nutt was sacked as a government adviser for comments he had made in an academic journal about the dangers of ecstasy.
Nutt wrote that taking the drug is no more dangerous than horse-riding.
Jacqui Smith, Home Secretary at the time, ordered Nutt to apologise.
– Read the entire article at The Independent.
Liberal Democrats Set Up Expert Panel on Cannabis Legalisation
Liberal Democrats Set Up Expert Panel on Cannabis Legalisation
Group including former government adviser and ex-chief constable
will consider how a legal market for cannabis could work in Britain
The Liberal Democrats are to set up an expert panel to establish how a legal market for cannabis could work in Britain, paving the way for them to become the first major political party in the UK to back its legalisation.
The move is backed the party’s health spokesman, Norman Lamb, and by a former deputy assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan police, Brian Paddick. It is in line with a 2014 party conference resolution which called for a review of the effectiveness of a regulated market in relation to health and reduced criminal activity.
The review panel members will include Prof David Nutt, the founder of DrugScience and a former chairman of the government’s advisory committee on the misuse of drugs, Tom Lloyd a former Cambridgeshire chief constable and chair of the National Cannabis Coalition, and Niamh Eastwood, the executive director of Release, a drugs charity.
The panel is to be chaired by Steve Rolles, of the drugs policy campaign group Transform.
– Read the entire article at The Gaurdian.
The Liberal Democrats are to set up an expert panel to establish how a legal market for cannabis could work in Britain, paving the way for them to become the first major political party in the UK to back its legalisation.
The move is backed the party’s health spokesman, Norman Lamb, and by a former deputy assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan police, Brian Paddick. It is in line with a 2014 party conference resolution which called for a review of the effectiveness of a regulated market in relation to health and reduced criminal activity.
The review panel members will include Prof David Nutt, the founder of DrugScience and a former chairman of the government’s advisory committee on the misuse of drugs, Tom Lloyd a former Cambridgeshire chief constable and chair of the National Cannabis Coalition, and Niamh Eastwood, the executive director of Release, a drugs charity.
The panel is to be chaired by Steve Rolles, of the drugs policy campaign group Transform.
– Read the entire article at The Gaurdian.
Legalising Cannabis in the UK ‘Would Raise Hundreds of Millions’
Legalising Cannabis in the UK ‘Would Raise Hundreds of Millions’
Legalising cannabis in the UK ‘would raise hundreds of millions’
Legalising cannabis would raise taxes worth hundreds of millions of pounds and produce large savings for the criminal justice system, a private analysis for the Treasury has concluded.
It judged that regulating cannabis, which was used by more than two million people in the UK last year, could generate “notable tax revenue” and “lead to overall savings to public services”.
The Treasury study, seen by The Independent, was commissioned by the former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg ahead of the general election to help formulate Liberal Democrat drugs policy if the party remained in office.
– Read the entire article at The Independent.
Legalising cannabis would raise taxes worth hundreds of millions of pounds and produce large savings for the criminal justice system, a private analysis for the Treasury has concluded.
It judged that regulating cannabis, which was used by more than two million people in the UK last year, could generate “notable tax revenue” and “lead to overall savings to public services”.
The Treasury study, seen by The Independent, was commissioned by the former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg ahead of the general election to help formulate Liberal Democrat drugs policy if the party remained in office.
– Read the entire article at The Independent.
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