It is worse still. Gifting such a lucrative market to the criminal underground, funnels a lot of money to organized crime. Wouldn’t surprise if they are influencing to keep the status quo.
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hand@lemmy.studio 4 months ago
Hmmmm.
We’re losing out on money by keeping it illegal (taxation) and using taxpayer money trying to stop it?
In our two party system both Cons and Labour don’t want sensible drug reform either… Somebody make it make sense?
jabjoe@feddit.uk 4 months ago
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 4 months ago
Worth remembering the UK is one of the worlds largest legal cannabis exporters.
And a number of MPs are known to be part ofbthe industory.
So legalising recreational in the UK would also make it easyier for small competitiltors to compete with those larger companies.
Like much of the restricted product industory. The complexity of licencingbmakes it advantagouse to the wealthy.