Pubdate: Sat, 01 Nov 2014
Source: Independent  (UK)
Copyright: 2014 Independent Newspapers (UK) Ltd.
Contact:  http://www.independent.co.uk/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/209
Author: Richard Humble

ELECTORATE SHOULD BE GIVEN CHOICE ON DRUGS POLICY

OK, Clegg, posturing over  now get practical. Decriminalise cannabis. 
Sell licences for every postal address which wants one to grow up to 
six plants. Then get together with the cigarette manufacturers to 
produce a decent packeted joint  say UKP8 per 20  and sell that as a 
state monopoly.

Play your cards right and you'll double the annual UKP11bn tax yield 
already contributed by tobacco smokers, put street dealers 
progressively out of business and reduce a lot of petty crime. And on 
the health and safety pitch, cannabis users will at last know what 
they're buying. (Not one myself - doesn't do a damn thing for me.)

Richard Humble

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