Tory Powerbroker William Hague Says It Is Time To Decriminalize Cannabis

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Drug use should be decriminalised and treated as a health problem because decades of hardline approaches to the problem have failed, former Tory leader Lord Hague said today. There’s even a Mea Culpa according to this report in the Daily Mail... He suggested his party should legalise it for recreational use, … The former minister said that the UK should follow the lead of Portugal, which has seen use drop after it cut criminal sanctions and ploughed money into healthcare instead. Amidst low public expectations of any change, it is safer to try more of the same. ‘Labour fear being depicted as ”soft” if they deviate from established policies.

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There’s even a Mea Culpa according to this report in the Daily Mail...

Drug use should be decriminalised and treated as a health problem because decades of hardline approaches to the problem have failed, former Tory leader Lord Hague said today.

The former minister said that the UK should follow the lead of Portugal, which has seen use drop after it cut criminal sanctions and ploughed money into healthcare instead.

The former Opposition leader admitted he had been guilty, like other Conservative politicians, of a reluctance ‘to abandon a ”tough” law and order approach’

But he...

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