Cannabis Taxation A Win Win Situation Richard Branson Tells MPs

The market for cannabis in Britain should be regulated and taxed, and responsibility for drug policy moved from the Home Office to the health department, Sir Richard Branson has told MPs. The Virgin Group head said the 20% of police time and £200m spent on giving criminal sentences to 70,000 young people for possession of illegal drugs in Britain each year would be better spent going after the criminal gangs at the centre of the drugs trade. "It's win-win all round,'' he told the Commons home affairs select committee. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/jan/24/cannabis-tax-branson-mps-virgi...

Annual Official Causes of Death in the United States - http://drugwarfacts.org/cms/?q=node/30

Category:

People & Blogs

Tags:

• Cannabis
• Richard Branson
• virgin
• Virgin Group
• Cannabis taxation
• control
• license
• taxation
• tax
• drug law
• talk
• talking
• debate
• Chat
• Conference
• Election
• Health
• Reform
• Government
• Press Conference
• Conservative
• Campaign
• law
• courts
• police
• Cops
• Court
• Crime
• Vlog

[Xbox360FanSite]

yea my mum is a bad alcoholic she drinks from 6am till 5pm everyday, she has had 2 heart attacks and still continues to drink like an idiot, I don't even see her anymore. I get angry of beer too so I don't drink much anymore. As for weed your right no one as died in results from cannabis. When I grew my weed it was a content panic of being raided so I gave that a miss too. I think most police raid weed dens because they want some, I bet 15% of the police force do it themselves Thumbs Up Dibber

[bearchay889]

I don't think none of this will change anywhere until all these ppl can't be elected more than once or at the most twice because they are always politicing for the next election at least here in the u.s and they have to pander to the ppl that are afraid of everything and they can lie to them and say they are doing a great job because they are arresting so many ppl well most of them are just for simple posession which screws up their future for getting in to school and many other things.

[TheAuzzieDingo]

i absolutely agree with you, take it out of the hands of the dealers and have it regulated by the Government. The taxes raised would be astonishing, and could go towards things like health and education.

[TUCKERZONE]

I think you know my Feelings Del it's about time they started Listening other People rather than the Knee Jerk reactionists regarding Cannabis,Soft or Hard drug it needs Looking at Definately by real Experts and not paid yes men.

[tomlinid]

I think the policy about drugs is crazy. Canabis is probably safer than tabaco or alcohol but it is criminalized. I don't think canabis is 100% safe and some reports suggest that heavy use of canabis may be linked to certain mental illnesses such as schizophrenia. I think it should be legalized and the possible risks explained to users. They should tax it and allow people to obtain it using a prescription from their doctor. They could chrge for the prescription as well as the canabis.

[DownUnderDoug]

I agree 100%, take it out of the hands of the MP's and allow the health people to regulate it and supply it. More research needs to be done with Cannabis because there are a lot of other uses for it as far as the strenth of it's fibre ect as well as it's medicinal properties.

[Mattyz0A0Pro]

New laws going to be past on 27 February 2012 in the UK heres some info, as this is the 1st step.

clear-uk.org/effectively-growi­ng-your-own-has-been-decrimina­lised-we-are-free/

[itsCARLDOUGLAS]

This is a very great topic and i agree with Mr Branson, Well done on him and it is also great that you point out the criminals and what they do to make more money out of it. Well done :)

[popebenadict16]

Good plan.

[DrOrphious79]

lets just hope that the government regulations done end up with preservatives and addatives getting added to it like they do with tobacco. that would be a step backwards