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Cannabis: Taxation

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of directing tax revenue from regulated cannabis into NHS mental health services.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 11 Mar 2025
Target answer date: 14 Mar 2025
Answer: 17 Mar 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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11 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of directing tax revenue from regulated cannabis into NHS mental health services.
14 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Mar 2025
Answer published
This Government has no plans to legalise cannabis.Cannabis is controlled as a Class B drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. The maximum penalty for possession of a Class B drug is up to 5 years in prison, an unlimited fine or both. The maximum penalty ...

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