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Lib Dems: legalise medicinal cannabis and possession of drugs for personal use

Submitted by Marijuana News on Tue, 06/23/2015 - 08:22

Liberal Democrat peers have called on the government to decriminalise the possession of drugs for personal use and legalise medical cannabis.

Brian Paddick, the party’s home affairs spokesman in the Lords and a former London mayoral candidate, has tabled a series of amendments to the government’s psychoactive substances bill, including decriminalisation of the possession of all drugs for personal use and the legalisation of medicinal use of cannabis when it is prescribed by a doctor.

The psychoactive substances bill, which will be debated in the Lords on Tuesday, seeks to outlaw legal highs, which have been blamed for a number of deaths in recent years. But the draft legislation has been criticised for being badly drafted and containing too broad a definition of psychoactive substances.

Lord Paddick, who was deputy assistant commissioner for the Metropolitan police before his retirement, also called for the government to...

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http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jun/23/lib-dems-legalise-medicinal-cannabis-and-possession-of-drugs-for-personal-use

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