Although it is considered to be a CLASS B DRUGS with carrying maximum imprisonment of 14 years.
It’s not quite legalisation – but arrests have fallen 46% across England and Wales since 2010.
The number of people being cautioned has dropped by 48% and the number of people being charged by 33% – meaning you’re a lot less likely to end up in hot water if you spark up.
Vice news reports that several police departments have spoken out – with Sarah Thornton, Leader of the National Police Chiefs Council saying policing cannabis has ‘never been a top priority’.
A poll earlier this year found that nearly half of Britons now back legalisation.
The poll of 2,000 people by survey company ORB found that 47% of people now back legalising cannabis for sale through licensed shops.
More than half of men back the measure – 53% – as opposed to just 41% of women, the poll, conducted for The Independent, found.
In America, legalising cannabis seems like a near-unstoppable force – and a study earlier this year argued that the British government would be £1 billion a year better off if we followed suit.
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