You can get up to 14 years in prison for selling cannabis and up to 5 years for just possession in the UK.
I have a suggestion for who you can release first.
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I have a suggestion for who you can release first.
Is it tax dodgers? I bet it's tax dodgers
legalization could also bring in taxes if they make a Vetter law than Germany. Add a legal market, tax it and earmark it for infrastructure & education.
Nah, commericalization is the cancer that ruins everything. Germany did it exactly right. Allowing corporations to control the market around drugs is obviously a bad idea.
Can you imagine the marketing though?! Man they'd have some fun with that.
I'm imagining the PG tips monkey making an appearance.
There must be a few thousand of them:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1202209/prisoners-for-cannabis-offences-england-and-wales/
I was thinking the other day that they may have made it illegal again so they can search someone when they smell it. Under a law where it's only legal to have a certain amount, I wonder if they can assert the same control under suspicion that they have too much.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The “shocking” prisons crisis is even worse than feared, Keir Starmer has said as the government prepares to release tens of thousands of inmates early in a bid to prevent jails becoming full.
Starmer pointed to a report in May which found that a high-risk prisoner had his release date brought forward despite a history of stalking and domestic abuse, and being subject to a restraining order.
Asked what the terms of the prisoner release scheme would be, Starmer said he had “pressed Rishi Sunak hard” on that case in parliament, adding: “We will set that all out when we make a statement in coming days.
“So no matter what people’s opinions are, or how unpalatable the announcement may be, there is an urgent need to decrease the prison population and give our members some breathing space so we can start to reverse the chaos of the last 14 years.”
The government is understood to have no plans for a queuing system for sentences and it is hoped that the releases will buy enough time to begin efforts to build capacity and start to address reoffending rates.
On his way to Washington for the Nato summit, Starmer also warned there would be no immediate fixes to the small boats crisis of asylum seekers crossing the Channel, suggesting he expected numbers to rise over the summer months.
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