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Home 🌿 Recreational Marijuana News 🌿 As UK MPs prepare to debate cannabis legalisation, evidence from Colorado shows it's working fine 🌿As UK MPs prepare to debate cannabis legalisation, evidence from Colorado shows it's working fine
As MPs in the UK prepare to debate cannabis legalisation, Transform's new report on Colorado, which became the first jurisdiction in the world to legalise cannabis in 2012, demonstrates the benefits of ending the criminalisation of users and putting government in control of the trade.
Despite dire predictions, early evidence suggests that legalisation in Colorado has had the following positive outcomes:
- No spike in cannabis use among young people
- Thousands no longer receiving criminal records
- No increase in road fatalities
- A significant reduction in the size of the criminal market, as the state now controls 60% of supply
- A $125 million predicted tax take for 2015, with $40 million allocated for school-building programmes
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