Boris Johnson hires a key cannabis legalisation supporter as No10 adviser
A KEY supporter of the push to legalise cannabis was yesterday brought into the heart of No.10 by Boris Johnson.Boris Johnson had hired a supporter of the push to legalise cannabis as his latest policy adviserHe worked as the PM’s policing aide when he was Mayor of London – and joins from the Centre for Medicinal Cannabis campaign group.political secretary. He has also called for an end to the prohibition of the drug.
The moves forced No10 last night to rush out a statement insisting comments by the pair “do not reflect government policy”. Mr Kruger in 2017 said: “We do not need to ban everything bad. “After all the Victorians never prohibited alcohol.” Earlier this week three senior backbench MPs claimed they believed cannabis could be made legal within five to ten years.. And on Twitter earlier this month he said the UK would have to learn from it “when it gets round to legislating to regulate a legal market for recreational cannabis.
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