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UK: What Are The British Doing About Cannabis Reform?

Marguerite Arnold

realculture.com

Wednesday 07 Jan 2015

Despite massive changes in 2014 on the medicinal cannabis front— particularly in Spain, Germany and Italy— with large cannabinoid trials across Europe in the summer conducted by some of the world’s largest pharma companies, the U.K. seems stuck in the past when it comes to drug policy on cannabis.

This year saw the first forward motion in over a generation in regards to the debate in the House of Commons in the fall of 2014. Support for reform where it has occurred, has been bipartisan. This fall, Tory, the conservative party leadership, went public in the press about the need to reform the country’s drug laws. Liberal Democrat, Norman Baker, has also raised his voice in what appears to be a new tone on the urgency for a call for legalization across senior government ranks.

Like Barack Obama, current Prime Minister David Cameron admitted to cannabis use as a young man. In the last general election four years ago, Cameron also ran on a platform that included what has been so far politically expedient language about the failed policies of the drug war. With that said, his administration has not moved forward on any new policies, nor is it likely to. As of this year, Cameron has said that there is no pressing need for further reform and his policies are succeeding. That is an idea widely contested by his rivals and the public, and is presumed to make his chances in the election slim.

Regardless, it is clear that even in Ye Jolie Olde Englande, reform is finally on the agenda as politicians and the public come forward. How fast the winds of change will blow up the Thames Valley, is another story.

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