Reconsidering Cannabis and the Law
Will Self argues that the UK needs to properly debate the kind of drug culture it wants, if we are to avoid the mistakes evident elsewhere over the legalisation of marijuana.
Will Self presents a very British solution to the issues surrounding the legalisation of marijuana.
Considering the pervasiveness of cannabis in the UK, he says the question that should currently be preoccupying us as a society is not whether marijuana should be legalised, but how.
"My model here would be the old Tote," he says, "a form of nationalised gambling that for many years mitigated its worst effects by limiting opportunities and hence possible losses."
He says that we must avoid the "commercialised free-for-all that's emerging in the US and parts of Canada."
Producer: Adele Armstrong
Sound: Peter Bosher
Production coordinator: Gemma Ashman
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
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