Cannabis grown by the state ...

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UK credit crunch solution?


HOLLAND is pioneering cannabis plantations to supply the drug to coffee shops in a bid to cut out criminal gangs.

Dozens of Dutch mayors voted for the scheme at a "weed summit" to discuss how to enforce their relaxed drug laws.

Cannabis can be legally sold at licensed shops and people can carry up to five grams without prosecution. But cultivation and dealing is outlawed, which has created an illicit two billion Euro (£1.7bn) annual trade. The plantations would supply cannabis legally.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23591401-details/Cannabis+grown+by+the+state/article.do

The State as official weed dealer. Think of the £££ billions in the Treasury coffers!

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1. Just think of all that Forestry Commission land they're looking for new uses for

It's a return to government monopolies that does have a certain attraction.

I was amazed that Pennsylvania still has (or did have, anyway, a few years ago) a state monopoly on wine and spirits retailing - private shops can only sell beer (and then, not in normal supermarkets - only speciality beer stores). So I don't see why a state monopoly of soft drugs couldn't work too ...