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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 UK Cannabis legalisation: MPs argue that smoking marijuana is a 'human right' 🌿UK Cannabis legalisation: MPs argue that smoking marijuana is a 'human right'
A group of MPs and peers have argued that people have the human right to take drugs and urged the government to consider reforming their policy and open a legal cannabis market. The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Drug Policy Reform, whose members include former MI5 director general Baroness Mannigham-Buller and former chancellor Baron Lawson of Blaby, say the war on drugs has "failed" and that change is needed.
In a report entitled Interpreting the UN Drug Conventions, the group argue that there should be an alternative to the "blanket prohibition" imposed in the UK and greater emphasis should be placed upon policies that promote the health of the individual and "reduce violence and corruption".
The report argues one section of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which deals with the right to "private and family life", could be used as a defence against prosecution for drug users...
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