Every national poll on the subject says they should. Only fear and corrupt pressure says they should not. Let the government realise that prohibition is highly dangerous and damaging to our social well being in a number of ways - we have only to look at the corruption recently exposed in the police force to see that. If an M.P. uses cannabis he or she could be blackmailed. Prohibition causes gangsterism, it denies any kind of quality control of a product used by millions, and it leads to abuse though ignorance.
Prohibition contributes to the spread of heroin addiction.
In the United States people are serving 25 year sentences and more just for a few plants. In Britain 900 people a year are given prison sentances and 25,000 are prosecuted. Many more are cautioned by the police, persecuted at work and live in fear just because they want to enjoy a simple and honest pleasure, which can be healing in itself, or because they need to use it as a medicine. 1999 people in Britain and all over the world will be demanding the urgent legalisation of cannabis worldwide.