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    So, where are the UK’s main parties on the issue of legal regulation?

    The Lib Dems have historically been the most forward-thinking.

    They recently made cannabis legalisation party policy, after setting up an expert panel to look into the issue.

    Under their plans, the UK would establish a tightly regulated,
    non-commercial* cannabis market that prioritises protecting public health over private profit.

    Sadly, both Labour and the Conservatives have avoided drug law reform like the plague.

    If they were acting on principle*, Labour ought to support reform to help achieve social justice, because it is the poor and marginalised who bear the brunt of the drug war.

    People from black and minority ethnic communities, for instance, are far more likely to be arrested and prosecuted for drug offences, despite the fact they use and deal drugs no more than white people.

    And Tories should support drug policy reform because it is an issue of authority, cost-effective public spending, and appeals to their concerns on individual freedoms.

    Senior party politicians have been less reticent about this issue in the past.

    Prime Minister David Cameron is on record as supporting drug law reform as far back as 2002, when he voted for a select committee recommendation to explore legalisation and regulation at the UN.

    Deputy Labour leader Tom Watson was also a member of the committee at the time, and both party heavyweights Mo Mowlam and Bob Ainsworth called for the legal regulation of drugs after they were reshuffled out of the shadow cabinet.

    Labour and the Tories therefore need to rekindle their interest in drug policy, and engage in a serious debate about the best way forward.

    Responsible legal control of drug markets is increasingly* being explored around the world, in preference to prohibition, and about half the UK now back cannabis law reform.

    This is no longer a niche issue - it’s moved to the mainstream* of public debate, and politicians are being left behind.

    It has been estimated by the Treasury that tax revenue from a legal cannabis market could be between £500million and £1billion, depending on demand and rate at which cannabis is taxed.

    Justin Trudeau has shown great leadership, modernising his country’s* approach to reduce the harms cannabis can cause.

    Labour and the Tories, by contrast, appear out of step as they cling to a harsh approach. They need to wake up: with more and more political leaders beginning to recognise the benefits of reform.

    The question increasingly being debated is not if whether we should legally regulate cannabis, but how and when.

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    UKIP are against it. All that foreign weed illegally coming into our country in the back of trucks. blah blah blah

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