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UK: Parliament to debate cannabis legalisation next month

Submitted by Marijuana News on Wed, 09/09/2015 - 08:24

 

Parliament will debate the legalisation of cannabis next month, House of Commons authorities have announced.

MPs will consider a proposal to make the “production, sale and use of cannabis legal” on Monday 12 October.

The debate will be held in response to an official petition on the Parliament website that has received over 211,000 signatures as of early September.

The debate, to be conducted in Westminster Hall, will be led by Labour MP Paul Flynn, a member of Parliament’s petitions committee.

Paul Flynn is a longstanding advocate of medical cannabis

Paul Flynn is a longstanding advocate of medical cannabis

Mr Flynn has previously called for the legalisation of cannabis for medical use, introducing bills in 1999 and supporting another

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