UK: Massive public support for cannabis to be legalised

NINE out of ten people have backed calls for cannabis to be legalised for recreational use in an Evening Mail poll.

Westmorland and Lonsdale MP and Liberal Democrat leader, Tim Farron, is expected to become the first leader of a major political party to call for the class B drug to be made legal for social use at the party's spring conference next month.

And it appears plenty of people support his view in south Cumbria as 90 per cent of respondents to a survey on www.nwemail.co.uk agree it should be made legal.

The news has attracted debate across social media and local politicians have voiced their views for and against the idea.

The issue is one that has split political parties as Councillor Graham Vincent, portfolio holder for health and well-being on South Lakeland District Council and fellow Liberal Democrat, said: "I would be against any move to legalise cannabis...

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