mo4ch:>‘Policing cannabis like trying to win back the Empire’: Ex-Tory boss calls time on govt drug policy | Mo4ch News
Prime Minister Theresa May is under increased pressure to change the government’s stance on medicinal cannabis, as a former boss of the Conservative party deemed the war against the drug as “comprehensively and irreversibly lost.”
Writing in the Daily Telegraph, William Hague called for a comprehensive change to cannabis policy after its legal status was brought into sharp focus last week by the case of 12-year-old epilepsy sufferer, Billy Caldwell.
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Calling the confiscation of the vital cannabis oil used to stop Billy’s seizures by UK border officials to comply with UK drug laws as “inappropriate, ineffective and utterly out of date,” Hague advocated a far-reaching review of policy regarding cannabis, saying “official intransigence is now at odds with common sense.”“As far as marijuana, or cannabis, is concerned, any war has been comprehensively and irreversibly lost.”Challenging the government to emulate the ruling Liberal Party government in Canada which is on the “ve…
Writing in the Daily Telegraph, William Hague called for a comprehensive change to cannabis policy after its legal status was brought into sharp focus last week by the case of 12-year-old epilepsy sufferer, Billy Caldwell.
Read more
Calling the confiscation of the vital cannabis oil used to stop Billy’s seizures by UK border officials to comply with UK drug laws as “inappropriate, ineffective and utterly out of date,” Hague advocated a far-reaching review of policy regarding cannabis, saying “official intransigence is now at odds with common sense.”“As far as marijuana, or cannabis, is concerned, any war has been comprehensively and irreversibly lost.”Challenging the government to emulate the ruling Liberal Party government in Canada which is on the “ve…