"Legalisation" Blogs & Blog Posts

From The Evening Standard:Britain's most senior police officer has described the legalisation of cannabis in Canada and parts of the US as "interesting experiments" that should be watched... She said the debate around the subject was "complex"..

From this morning's Metro:Legalisation of cannabis will not eliminate illegal dealing. There will still be a criminal element ready to supply it for a price undercutting the legitimate market.HG, Kent.That is just wrong on so many levels that it is i...

A retired politican, who toed the party line and dutifully trotted out the "illegal drugs cause harm so must remain illegal" mantra while in office/in power, now comes out and admits it's all stupid and that some things - like cannabis - should...

A new report by the TaxPayers’ Alliance details the enormous savings to British taxpayers by legalising cannabis. The UK could save at least £891.72 million a year in reduced spending by police, prisons, courts and the NHS through pain relief...

David Nutt on top form in The Guardian:... the short answer to the question “why are (some) drugs illegal?” is simple. It’s because the editors of powerful newspapers want it that way. They see getting drugs banned as a tangible measure of succ...

... in Jamaica.From The Daily Mail:As the birth place of reggae music and the Rastafarian religious cult Jamaica has long been associated with cannabis. Now high ranking officials of the Caribbean state want to legalise the widely used but illegal dr...

... in Durham:Class A drugs should be decriminalised and drug addicts "treated and cared for not criminalised", according to a senior UK police officer.Writing in the Observer, Chief Constable Mike Barton of Durham Police said prohibition had put bil...