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The kind of civil liberties they like are the rather limited kind, or only for the right kind of people (their voters). During the debate on the November lockdown, the word 'arbitrary' was used a lot, yet they are quiet on the arbitrary nature of the classification of Cannabis, no civil liberties for users of Cannabis (wrong kind of people).

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tomatocracy|5 years ago

Actually there are a fair few Tories in favour of legalisation of cannabis. Crispin Blunt and Peter Lilley spring to mind as having been relatively forthright on this but quite a few quietly hold these views.

nicky0|5 years ago

I was thinking people like Steve Baker (who as it happens is also a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Drug Policy Reform - you might like him!)

Veen|5 years ago

Are you implying that cannabis users exclusively vote Labour? I suppose that explains Jeremy Corbyn.

PoachedSausage|5 years ago

No, not a specific political difference, more of a differnce of socio-economic/age/class/possibly even race. As we saw at the last election Corbyn wasn't that popular with some traditional Labour voters.

Perhaps we will see some changes now that we are getting stories of Hard Working Families (TM) having to spend large sums of money to buy Cannabis based medications for their children.