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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 UK: Battalion’s worth of soldiers sacked for drug taking every year 🌿UK: Battalion’s worth of soldiers sacked for drug taking every year
MP calls for Commons investigation after Telegraph finds hundreds of soldiers being sacked every year for taking ecstasy, cocaine and cannabis
A battalion’s worth of soldiers are being sacked by the Army every year for failing compulsory drugs tests, The Telegraph can reveal.
Over the last decade close to 500 soldiers were dismissed each year after being caught taking ecstasy, cocaine, cannabis and other banned drugs.
The findings have triggered warnings that the Armed Forces has a hidden "drugs problem” and calls for a Commons investigation.
It is compounding a recruitment problem the British military has attracting new reserves and comes after the full-time Army was downsized under the Coalition.
Veterans and campaigners said the findings also raised wider questions about how well the services look after troops when they come off tours from the front
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