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<\/strong><\/p>\nA government-tasked commission has advised\u00a0France\u00a0<\/a>to legalise\u00a0cannabis\u00a0<\/a>to \u201ctake back control\u201d of the black market,\u00a0calling prohibition an abject \u201cfailure\u201d.In potentially explosive conclusions, two experts for the economic analysis council, or CAE, an influential advisory body to the prime minister, urged the government to end a blanket ban of the recreational drug.In their report released on Thursday entitled \u201cCannabis: how to take back control\u201d, the two CEA-mandated economists wrote: \u201cThe system of prohibition promised by France for the past 50 years has been a failure.\u201d<\/p>\n State-controlled cannabis stores would be the best way to control drug trafficking and \u201crestrict access\u201d to younger would-be users, they argued.\u00a0By their calculations, cannabis could bring up to \u20ac2.8 billion (\u00a32.5bn) per year into state coffers and create up to 57,000 jobs.Part of the revenues could be channeled into \u201ctown and educational policies in sensitive urban areas\u201d, the wrote.\u201cIt\u2019s an issue that is evolving fast with lots of return on experience as all countries who legalise cannabis do so in different ways,\u201d said Pierre -Yves Geoffard, one of the co-authors.<\/p>\n Canada legalised cannabis late last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n H<\/span>ours later, some 70 public figures, including the number two of President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s ruling LREM party, published a petition in Nouvel Obs magazine calling for legalisation in the name of \u201cpragmatism\u201d.Seven MPs from LREM also backed a proposed bill to legalise cannabis by creating a public monopoly on production and distribution of the drug. Government spokeswoman Sibeth Ndiaye said \u201c(its) position is not go towards legalisation of cannabis\u201d.<\/p>\n On Wednesday, CSST advised\u00a0the state to experiment legalising cannabis for purely therapeutic use over a two-year period starting in 2020. Parliament could rubber stamp the idea over the summer.Britain\u2019s first medical cannabis clinic opened in Manchester in March after the use of cannabis-based treatments was legalised in the UK late last year. Recreational use remains illegal.The French government was forced to clamp down last year on coffee shops selling\u00a0low-strength cannabis due to a legal\u00a0loophole.\u00a0French law allows\u00a0the sale of the drug containing less than 0.2 per cent of THC (tetrahydrocannabinol)<\/a>, the main psychoactive ingredient.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Newswave : \u201d Legalizing recreational cannabis: the shock proposal from the Economic Analysis Council \u201c<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The post 50 years of Prohibition in France is an utter failure<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis News Network<\/a>. – Also, download the free app in your app store – Cannabis News Network<\/p>\n
Check out all video items on our Youtube channel France is the number one European country for cannabis use.\u00a0\u201cThe government should create a \u201cpublic monopoly of cannabis production and distribution\u201d, according to The Council of Economic Analysis.\u00a0Cannabis could bring up to \u20ac2.8 billion per year and create up to 57,000Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":36317,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4167,10436,10437,10438,10439,10440,10441,2273,10442,2846,10443,10444,55,10445,10446,10447],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36318,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36316\/revisions\/36318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\u201cThe advantage of not being the first off the block is you can learn from others\u2019 mistakes,\u201d he said.<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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But Richard Ferrand, the parliamentary speaker from Mr Macron\u2019s LREM party said the door was not closed to debate on the issue.While carefully controlled legalisation has the backing of MPs from several parties, public opinion is divided with the latest poll suggesting that 54 per cent were against.There is, however, wide support for its therapeutic use, which the French scientific committee CSST says would benefit up to a million patients.<\/p>\n
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