Member Of UK Parliament Calls For Studying Cannabis Legalization

Nigel Farage is a media celebrity in Britain and hosts a television segment called ‘Barage the Farage’ in which viewers can send in their questions and Farage will discuss them with his guest(s).

Last week Nigel Farage, who is a former lawmaker, was joined by Kevin Hollinrake who is a current lawmaker in the United Kingdom Parliament. In a segment that covered a number of topics, the duo was asked, “Would Britain be wise to follow the US’ lead and reclassify cannabis and receive the tax revenue?”

Below is an embedded tweet containing the question and subsequent discussion, which occurs in the last minute of the 3-minute clip:

‘Would Britain be wise to follow the US’ lead and reclassify cannabis and receive the tax revenue?’@Nigel_Farage and Kevin Hollinrake MP answer your questions in Barrage the Farage.

What would you ask? 🤔#FarageOnGBNews

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— GB News (@GBNEWS) March 23, 2022

As you can see, the current and former lawmaker seem to be in firm agreement that something needs to be done about cannabis policy in Britain, and that prohibition isn’t working.

Unfortunately, the ‘something’ that they think needs to be done is to study what is going on in other nations, and piggybacked off of the question, specifically offering up the United States as an example, although cannabis is still prohibited at the federal level in the U.S.

As of this article’s posting, Uruguay, Canada, and Malta are the only countries that have legalized cannabis for adult use at the national level. Uruguay and Canada currently allow legal adult-use cannabis sales whereas Malta does not.

The sky remains intact over all three nations, and in the case of Canada specifically, the legal cannabis industry has created over 150,000 jobs, generated over 15 billion dollars in public taxes and fees since 2018, and contributed over 43 billion dollars towards Canada’s GDP. And that doesn’t include the number of lives that were prevented from being ruined by prohibition, which is in itself priceless.

Clearly, cannabis legalization is working, and there is no need to form an official committee or government inquiry in Britain to know that obvious fact. All the formation of a committee or study will do is result in more footdragging just to eventually arrive at the same conclusion that we are already at. End cannabis prohibition in Britain immediately, and everywhere else that it exists.