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Home 🌿 Recreational Marijuana News 🌿 Legalising cannabis in the UK could raise £900 million a year in taxes 🌿Legalising cannabis in the UK could raise £900 million a year in taxes
Just days after former Liberal Democrats leader Nick Clegg called for a global drugs policy reform, a Labour MP has said the war on drugs has been a "disaster" and believes cannabis should be legal in the UK.
Paul Flynn wrote an article for the Mirror saying prohibition of the drug has only madder matters worse in Britain in terms of drug use and criminality.
"In 1971 the UK had fewer than a 1,000 heroin and cocaine addicts. After 45 years of the harshest drugs policies in Europe we have 320,000. Prohibition increases drugs use, harm and crime. It builds empires of criminals as the alcohol prohibition did in America in the twenties."
He backed up his argument by saying "billions" had been spent arresting users of a substance that is "less harmful than alcohol", referring to the legalisation of it in four states in America, ...
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