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If David Cameron turned around tomorrow and said, 'you know what? We need money and austerity doesn't seem to be working. Why don't we legalise weed and see what happens?'. What would it be like?
Well, Nick Chowdrey at Vice decided to find out exactly what would happen. How much would we make? How much would we save? Is it worth doing at all in the first place? (Spoiler: yes).
In 2011, a political party called CLEAR - who believe in cannabis law reform - decided to fund a study to see just how many people in the UK actually smoke (or eat) the stuff. They went to the Independent Drug Monitoring Unit (IDMU) and the result was that between 2004 and 2011, the UK consumed an estimated 36,579,100 ounces per year. That's a sh*tload of weed. Fast forward to 2015 and that number is probably a lot higher. However,...
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