UK: Cannabis Regulation To Be Debated In Parliament Today

Six months. It has been barely six months since legalisation of cannabis was debated in parliament – in a side room, with fewer than 20 MPs in attendance. That debate was the result of an online petition that collected more than 200,000 signatures, and yet at the time the vast majority of our MPs did not care enough about the issue to even turn up. One of those few MPs that were at the debate, however, was Liberal Democrat Norman Lamb, and he is now at it again.

Today in parliament, Lamb, the former coalition Health Minister, will propose a Ten Minute Rule Bill asking for the very same thing to be debated, despite the little interest it received in the Commons last October. So what has changed?

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In October the debate took place in Westminster Hall, disparagingly referred to as...

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