UK: Crispin Blunt Says New Cannabis and Wider Drugs Legislation Could Be a Task for a Royal Commission
Former prisons minister and Tory MP Crispin Blunt has said the best way to move ahead with more progressive drugs legislation would be to initiate a Royal Commission on the matter.
Blunt told a fringe event about cannabis legalisation at the Conservative party conference last night that doing so would take the debate about changing drugs policy, which includes areas such as medicinal cannabis, "out of the purely political sphere".
The Conservative party does not currently support the decriminalisation or legalisation of cannabis for medical or recreational use.
Blunt, who revealed in January he had used the legal high poppers, has said he is in favour of decriminalising cannabis.
Under decriminalisation, users are usually not penalised for being in possession of small amounts of marijuana, though the selling and cultivation of the substance is usually still a crime.
Legalisation, on the other hand, gives a green light to both consumers...
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