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Cannabis should be decriminalised because Queen Victoria used cannabis "to relieve menstrual pain", a former Tory minister has suggested.
Legalising cannabis could also generate hundreds of millions of pounds a year in tax and would see the costs for the police and prisons slashed.
That is according to an internal Treasury report, seen by BBC Newsnight, which said that regulating the market could "generate notable tax revenue".
Despite the benefits to the Treasury, ministers have no plans to change the law surrounding the Class B illegal drug.
MPs debating the pros and cons of legalising the substance heard yesterday from Peter Lilley, Margaret Thatcher's former Trade Minister, that Britain should "give people the moral responsibility" to choose not to take the drug without the need to prohibit it in law.
Mr Lilley said: "Even Queen Victoria allegedly used cannabis to
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