Liberals on pot? That's exactly what we need

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After the disastrous election result for the Lib Dems, they could have vanished in a puff of smoke. But no: they are back now setting up an expert panel to try to establish how a legal market for cannabis would work. They are looking at becoming the first party in the UK to back its legalisation.

Good. This seems the sort a thing a party of liberalism should be doing, instead of acting as they did in government, as a party continually holding back the Tories: “Leave it, Dave, the underclass is just not worth it.” We were supposed to accept that they made policies that cut benefits to the bone, threw under-25s on the scrapheap and impoverished women somehow more humane than they would otherwise have been. Were they on drugs? Now that the Lib Dems are basically a bunch of blokes who could all fit...

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