Cannabis should be sold in shops to raise £1bn in tax, says North East top cop and academic

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Cannabis should be sold legally in licensed shops to raise £1bn a year in tax for the Treasury, according to a North East police chief and academic.

And people should be allowed to grow cannabis in their own homes, as long as it is for personal use.

The recommendations were published by a panel of experts including Mike Barton, Chief Constable of Durham Police, and Professor Fiona Measham, Professor of Criminology at Durham University, after they were commissioned by the Liberal Democrats to look at drugs laws.

Their findings will now be put to the Liberal Democrat spring conference in York, and could become party policy.

But Lib Dem leader Tim Farron made it clear that he hopes the party will back a change in the law.

He said: “Prohibition of cannabis has failed. We need a new, smarter approach and I welcome this report ahead of the...

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