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Cannabis politics
UK cannabis-law politics, parliamentary sources, campaign arguments and historical material collected by CCGUIDE.
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UK Parliament & political participation
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Search questions, answers and statements
Written parliamentary questions are useful for checking the Government's stated position without relying on old press reports or quotations copied between websites.
Questions, answers & statementsHome Affairs Committee: Drugs
The Committee's 2023 report examined the UK's drugs framework, public-health approaches and cannabis regulation, followed by a formal Government response.
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Current legal position
What UK law currently says
Political debate about reform should be kept separate from the law that applies now.
Cannabis remains a controlled drug
Current GOV.UK guidance lists cannabis as a Class B drug. Unauthorised possession, supply, production and cultivation can result in criminal penalties.
GOV.UK drug penaltiesOfficial licensing guidance
Home Office guidance explains the legislative position for cannabis, CBD and other cannabinoids, including the distinction between controlled cannabis and cannabis-based products for medicinal use.
Home Office licensing factsheetRecent parliamentary answer on legalisation
In a written answer published on 17 March 2025, the Home Office stated that the Government had no plans to legalise cannabis and reiterated its Class B status. This is a dated political statement rather than a permanent rule, so future positions should always be checked against current parliamentary records.
Read the parliamentary answerPolicy debate
Reform, regulation and prohibition
CCGUIDE has historically argued for legalisation. A useful politics page should also make it easy to inspect the evidence and institutional arguments on different sides of the debate.
13 points in favour of legalisation
A concise historical statement of the site's reform case, covering criminalisation, regulation, medical use, civil liberties and the illicit market.
Read the 13 pointsA single issue — Howard Marks
Archived political writing on single-issue campaigning and cannabis-law reform.
Read the Howard Marks articleStudies, reports and testimonies
Use the redesigned research page for official reports and historical evidence rather than relying on isolated political quotations.
Open studies & reportsHome Affairs Committee findings
The 2023 Committee report described wider drug laws as needing reform and supported a stronger public-health approach, while also saying it did not believe cannabis should be legalised and regulated for non-medical use. The report is useful because it shows that drug-law reform and cannabis legalisation are not identical policy questions.
Home Affairs Committee reportCannabis prohibition — a very serious crime
The updated CCGUIDE campaign page separates current UK law, modern evidence and historical campaign argument, with corrected links and source notes.
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CCGUIDE political archive
These surviving internal pages replace the old politics page's bare link list.
- Judge Francis Young, 1988. DEA Administrative Law Judge Francis L. Young's marijuana-rescheduling opinion and recommended ruling. CCGUIDE archive
- Potent quotes on cannabis and the law. A large historical collection of statements, quotations and claims. Many entries are decades old and should be checked against current research before being reused as factual evidence. Open Potent Quotes
- Recommended reading. CCGUIDE's cannabis book and reading-material list. Open reading list
- Quick-fire questions and answers. The site's historical FAQ-style campaign material. Open questions & answers
- Recent and archived articles. A collection of UK and international press and commentary retained by CCGUIDE. Open selected articles
International policy
Compare approaches outside the UK
International experience can inform UK debate, but different countries use different legal, health and commercial models.
NZ Drug Foundation — policy and practice
A current replacement for the politics page's obsolete New Zealand Drug Foundation link. The organisation publishes material on decriminalisation, cannabis regulation and harm-reduction policy.
NZ Drug Foundation policy & practiceInternational drug treaties & human rights
CCGUIDE's archive material on the international conventions that influence national drug-control systems and on the site's historical human-rights arguments.
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More CCGUIDE resources
Move from politics into law, campaigning, research and the wider archive.
Cannabis law in the UK
CCGUIDE's law archive and related legal material.
Open law pageCampaign activities
A chronological archive of UK cannabis campaigning and events.
Open campaign archiveStudies & official reports
Verified research links, historical inquiries and source summaries.
Open research archiveAlphabetical site index
Search the wider CCGUIDE archive by subject.
Browse the indexWorld cannabis news
Return to the site's news archive for political and policy developments.
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