UK Edging Closer To Legalisation Of Cannabis?
Cannabis use should be treated as a health issue and not a criminal act, leading doctors will hear.
Delegates at the British Medical Association's annual representative meeting in Harrogate are to debate whether cannabis should be legalised.
A motion has been tabled calling on the doctors' union to promote the legalisation of the drug.
Cannabis use should be treated as a health issue and not a criminal act, leading doctors will hear
Geoffrey Lewis, a retired consultant from Leicester, will present the motion saying: "Too often the focus on drug use and addiction is from a criminal justice rather than a public health point of view.
"Doctors see first hand the damaging effects of a system which seeks to criminalise drug users rather than a treat their addiction.
"Existing drug policy is contradictory and ineffective. The number of drug users has sky rocketed in the last...
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