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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Scotland: Minister hints at relaxation of cannabis research laws 🌿Scotland: Minister hints at relaxation of cannabis research laws
Laws governing medical research into the effects of cannabis on patients could be relaxed, a Home Office minister has signalled.
Mike Penning told MPs the Government would not support an e-petition calling for the legalisation of the production, sale and use of cannabis - which gathered 223,169 signatures.
But the Conservative frontbencher said there is a need to "look carefully" at the impact of certain parts of legislation on research.
He added there should not be anything in law which prevents research into improving the quality of people's lives, noting he would work with other government departments to see how that can be done.
The minister replied after several MPs argued for cannabis to be legalised on the basis it would offer medical relief to patients and because successive governments have failed to control use of the drug by criminalising it.
Labour's Paul
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