Ten-Year Drugs Strategy

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 6:36 pm on 6 December 2021.

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Photo of Tony Lloyd Tony Lloyd Labour, Rochdale 6:36, 6 December 2021

I also welcome the move, if it is genuine, to begin to treat the serious use of class A drugs as a health, rather than a criminal justice, problem. That will make a material difference if the money is there. We know that one driver of criminal gangs is high-volume cannabis sales that allow the structure to remain intact. Will the Minister look very seriously at evidence from Portugal, for example, on using administrative methods, or from parts of North America or other European countries where cannabis has been taken out of the drug supply industry? It is radical, but it may make a real difference.