IIRC one of the ex-PM May's husband's firms owned the largest cannabis operation [in Europe ?? used in medicinal sales globally] whilst their partner was responsible for stopping sale and use (including medical) in the UK.

Clever and morally void: what we in the UK call "Tory".

https://beta.spectator.co.uk/article/homegrown-industry

That's kind of ironic, since many conservatives support the legalisation of marijuana use (at least in the US). In my experience, the most zealous partisans against legalisation are nanny-staters.

Then there’s Canada, where you can grow it or buy it (from legal distributors), but import/export is verboten without a license that’s impossible to get for personal use.

In Washington you can buy it for personal use, but can't pass a joint to a friend (still a felony) and can't grow a single plant for personal use without a full commercial grower's license.

Where would Canada be exporting it to? Until now, the only other country besides Canada with fully legal cannabis was Uruguay. As I understand it, those clauses were in the Cannabis Act to assuage the concerns of other nations that Canada might get involved in what they would see as international drug trafficking.

Also, many countries (186) are nominally still party to the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which puts marijuana in "Schedule IV:" "The drug … is particularly liable to abuse and to produce ill effects, and such liability is not offset by substantial therapeutic advantages." So even above-board international trade in cannabis may be problematic.

> The Commentary notes that "Whether the prohibition of drugs in Schedule IV (cannabis and cannabis resin, desomorphine, heroin, ketobemidone) should be mandatory or only recommended was a controversial question at the Plenipotentiary Conference." The provision adopted represents "a compromise which leaves prohibition to the judgement, though theoretically not to the discretion, of each Party." The Parties are required to act in good faith in making this decision, or else they will be in violation of the treaty.

(Wikipedia)

Meh, what's the UN going to do if you break their policy, send you a strongly worded letter?

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