Legalising cannabis ‘could earn Treasury £3.5bn’

Report suggests change to law would generate revenue and cut costs across justice system

Introducing a legal cannabis market to the UK could earn the Treasury between £1bn and £3.5bn a year in tax revenues, a report has suggested.

Health Poverty Action, an international development organisation, claims that regulating and legalising cannabis in the UK is an “idea whose time has come” and that the windfall could be used to plug the gap in the NHS budget.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2LTSEuZ