Written Question·Home Office·UIN 36769

Drugs: Misuse

Tabled: 10 March 2025

Answered: 17 March 2025

Question

Bell Ribeiro-Addy

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has conducted an equality impact assessment on (a) the racial disparities in drug law enforcement and (b) how a regulated cannabis market could address these.

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson

This Government has no plans to legalise cannabis.Cannabis is controlled as a Class B drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. The maximum penalty for possession of a Class B drug is up to 5 years in prison, an unlimited fine or both.The maximum penalty f...

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