Sir Keir Starmer is under fresh pressure to adopt a more radical stance on drugs policy after one of his most senior allies suggested cannabis should be legalised 🔴 Exclusive from HugoGye
Charles Falconer, a Labour peer who served in Tony Blair’s Cabinet, said that drug use should be treated as “a health problem, not a criminal justice problem”.
He is leading a commission on drug law reform for Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, who also supports an overhaul of the current system. Sir Keir has so far rejected the suggestion as he seeks toSpeaking to GB News, Lord Falconer said: “Over 30 or 40 years there’s been a, quote, ‘war on drugs’. And the consequence of
is a lot of people have become addicted to a whole variety of drugs. They’ve died on very many occasions. The war has manifestly failed.“I was in charge of the justice system between 2003 and 2007. We were heavily engaged in the war on drugs. What was the consequence? A billion-dollar industry was placed in the hands of criminals. They exploited lots and lots of people, not just the users.”
The peer added: “Would it be better if it became a health problem, not a criminal justice problem? What about possibly? I’ve reached no conclusions in relation to this. The effect of decriminalising is that the number of people who use cannabis goes up. We need to look at the evidence in relation to this, and I’ve got no conclusions. But we need to look at it because the one thing I think everybody agrees on is that the war has failed.
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