The Liberal Democrats want to completely legalise cannabis

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May 16, 2017 10:12 AM

The party will include a policy to legalise the sale of cannabis in Britain in its general election manifesto, due to be launched next week.

LONDON — The Liberal Democrats will include the complete legalisation of cannabis in their general election manifesto.

Tim Farron's party confirmed to BuzzFeed that if elected to government they would allow cannabis to be legally sold in licensed British high street shops and spend the tax raised from sales on funding on improving public health.

The party first agreed to adopt a policy of legalising cannabis at its March conference in York.

However, Lib Dem parliamentary candidate

"The market is run by criminal gangs and they have no interest in public health – the system is causing huge amounts of harm.

"The prohibitionist approach costs a huge amount of money, means we criminalise a large amount of people and increases the harm," he added. "We spend a lot of money making people’s lives worse. That cannot be correct."

The former MP said a Lib Dem government would create an independent regulatory body for the cannabis market in order to ensure cannabis sold legally in Britain contained low levels of THC, the chemical most responsible marijuana's adverse

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