UK: Free-thinking Brighton wants to legalise cannabis the most
Free-thinking Brighton wants to legalise cannabis more than anywhere else in Britain, Mirror Online can reveal.
Nearly 1,000 people in the Green Party's only seat backed a landmark petition which will be debated in Parliament tomorrow.
Today Labour MP Paul Flynn, who is leading the debate, says the war on drugs has failed in a piece for Mirror Online.
Meanwhile the Mirror's data unit analysed the publicly-given addresses of the 220,000 people who have signed the petition - which claims legalisation could raise £900m a year.
What we found was 954 signatures in Caroline Lucas' seat Brighton Pavilion, one for every 112 residents.
The Green MP told Mirror Online: "I think people in Brighton are independent thinkers who look at the evidence - and all the evidence shows prohibition doesn't work.
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