The mayor of London Sadiq Khan urged the government to decrimine a small amount of natural cannabis and stated that the current laws “cannot be justified”. His comments came after a new report by the London Drugs Commission (LDC) that the current cannabis laws were “disproportionate damage that he could represent” after a study of the drug police around the world. Khan himself founded LDC in 2022.
“For a long time, I have made it clear that we need new thinking about how to reduce the substantial damage related to drug -related crime in our communities,” the mayor said on Wednesday, The Guardian said.
According to the Daily Mail, the Commission, the chairman of the former Lord Charlie Falconer, has revealed how cannabis policy focuses mainly on certain ethnic communities, damaging the relations between the police and these communities.
Lord Falconer said that while “legalization is not an answer”, the criminal judiciary system should “focus only on the seller and not on users,” the BBC said. Falconer made a statement after his committee could not determine long -term damage to public health because the consequences were not “well understood”.
Report of the Drug Commission in London
The Commission demanded that “natural” cannabis be moved from the Drug Abuse Act to the Act on Psychoactive substances that effectively legalize the possession of a small amount for personal use and at the same time continue to ban the import, production or distribution of the drug, including any “synthetic” cannabis. Under contemporary laws, cannabis is classified as a B -Class drug and drugs in possession can face imprisonment, fines or both.
The attitude of the United Kingdom Government
A British domestic spokesman rejected Khan’s call for decriminalization and said: “The government does not intend to reclass the cannabis of class B according to the drug of drug abuse,” Daily Mail said. The spokesman added that the government wants to focus on reducing drug use by offering health services and keeping the streets safe. The shadow domestic secretary of Great Britain, Chris Philp, also opposed this idea by mentioning that similar steps in parts of the US and Canada led to higher criminal and public health problems. “Cannabis is illegal for some reason. Konop is associated with antisocial behavior and severe use can lead to serious psychosis and serious mental health problems.”
Who is Sadiq Khan?
Sadiq Khan was born in London to Pakistani’s immigrants. Between 1994 and 2006, he became a lawyer specializing in human rights and was a councilor in the Wandsworth district of London. In 2016, the leader of Pakistan’s origin made history after becoming the first mayor of London belonging to an ethnic minority. Last year he received knightly, the title King awarded the man for excellent successes or service to the country.
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