UK: Home Secretary wants tougher penalties for cannabis, PM also speaks out on issue
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UK: Home Secretary wants tougher penalties for cannabis, PM also speaks out on issue

UK: The Home Secretary wants tougher penalties for cannabis, the prime minister has said on the matter. News outlets have been circulating in recent days that Minister Suella Braverman is opposed to the decriminalization of cannabis, and that she has announced a change in the classification of cannabis to a more restrictive one that even imposes life imprisonment for its cultivation. The reports have been addressed by the British government. Here is more information.

U.K.: Home Secretary wants tougher penalties for cannabis, PM has spoken out on the issue.

The Home Secretary is pushing the idea of changing the classification of cannabis from a Class B drug to Class A where the most dangerous substances like heroin are found.

The reclassification would cause the maximum penalty for possession to rise from 5 to 7 years in prison, while the maximum penalty for production and trafficking would rise from 14 years to life imprisonment!

Suella Braverman argues her demands with absurd concerns that cannabis, for one thing, is a "gateway" to other so-called heavier stimulants, and also causes various diseases, including cancer and psychosis.

The Times reports that Braverman is ideologically opposed to decriminalizing cannabis because, in her view, it sends a "cultural" signal that drug use is acceptable. A person close to the minister told The Times that "We need to scare people," and that's all this is about, not real change.

However, word from 10 Downing Street is that no reclassification is planned.

There are no plans to change cannabis regulations.

-informed the UK Prime Minister's spokesman.