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A new report claims the UK government should legalise marijuana because it's “the only solution to crime and addiction problems”.
The strongly-worded study - titled The Tide Effect: How the World is Changing its Mind on Cannabis - was produced by the nonpartisan Adam Smith Institute and has the backing of several cross-party MPs including former deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg.
According to the institute, the UK’s current drug strategy “has failed in its core aims to prevent people from using drugs, manufacturing drugs, and to put a stop to the crime, corruption and death that is taking place on an industrial scale around the world”.
The report claims legalisation would reduce organised crime, improve the quality (and therefore safety) of cannabis and line the coffers of...
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