Legalising cannabis 'would generate hundreds of millions of pounds in tax' says leaked government report

The internal Treasury report also found that a move to relax the law would cut costs to the police and prison service

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Legalising cannabis would generate hundreds of millions of pounds to the British economy, a report has said

Hundreds of millions of pounds a year in tax would be raised if cannabis was legalised, a leaked government report has found.
A decision to relax laws on the Class- B drug would also cut huge costs currently faced by police and prisons.


It comes after MPs last night debated whether to change the law following a petition calling for the drug to be legalised which had more than 220,000 signatures.
Now the internal Treasury report said relaxing cannabis laws would "generate notable tax revenue" and "lead to overall savings to the criminal justice system".