The government must recognise that legalising the Class B drug is the “only workable solution to the problems of crime and addiction in the UK and modernise and legalise”, the report says. Legal regulation would also allow long-term studies of the drug’s health effects that are not currently possible, it says. Cannabis prohibition is being swept away on a tide of popular opinion and replaced with responsible legal regulation. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Californians celebrate after the state’s voters approved the legalisation of cannabis on 8 November. “The war on drugs has been an abject failure, and the continued criminalisation of cannabis users is deeply counterproductive,” she said.

Source: The Guardian November 21, 2016 00:01 UTC