UK Cannabis Laws Similar To US Refusal To Ban Guns, Says MP

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The British government's attitude towards cannabis is the same as the American refusal to introduce strict gun controls, a Labour MP has said ahead of a parliamentary debate on the drug.

Paul Flynn said the UK had been "left behind" by many other countries, including many US states, which had decriminalised medicinal cannabis.

"We are in a position rather like America is on gun laws. Most of the rest of the world is baffled by our refusal to reform," he told The Huffington Post UK.

 

Today parliament will debate the legalisation of cannabis after over 200,000 people signed an online petition calling for MPs to address the issue.

Flynn said because the drug was illegal people took it in a harmful way by mixing it with tobacco and smoking it. "If we had a legal market people would know what the drug is,...

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