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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Government urged to decriminalise drug use and test regulated cannabis market 🌿Government urged to decriminalise drug use and test regulated cannabis market
A legal cannabis market should be tested and drug use decriminalised in order to try a radical new approach to drug use that focusses more on human rights laws, a group of MPs and peers has said.
The All Party Parliamentary Group for Drug Policy Reform called for an overhaul in global narcotics policy, saying the "war on drugs" and "blanket prohibition" approach had failed.
It said experiments into possible models of regulated markets for marijuana should be "encouraged" among United Nations countries including the UK. In a report, the group said:
Depending upon the results of the evaluations, consideration may then be given to treaty reform to make appropriate provision for regulation of cannabis, and possibly also for other controlled substances.
– All Party Parliamentary Group for Drug Policy Reform
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It also said any regulation should reflect the...
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