Sentences with phrase «drug liberalisation»

One major issue absent from your report on New Zealand's drug liberalisation (8 March, p 40) is that novel drugs...

With outspoken opinions on drug liberalisation and the death of David Kelly, Lib Dem MP Baker was never a great match for Tory boss Theresa May, but his resignation from the Home Office goes beyond personality clashes

The home affairs committee report comes amid sea - changes in the international outlook for drug liberalisation.

David Cameron called for drug liberalisation when he first became an MP and Nick Clegg is thought to be privately sympathetic.

The push for drug liberalisation comes as part of a global trend toward a more liberal stance on narcotics, following half a century of expensive and broadly ineffective efforts to wipe out the drug trade.

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The liberalisation of the movement of capital since 1974 has greatly facilitated the recycling of «dirty money» - from the sale of drugs and arms through to that generated by white collar criminality - in legalised tax havens and, thanks to banking secrecy, through the financial and industrial organisations otherwise respected in countries «of excellence» reputed for their professionalism and democratic institutions.

The CSU officially opposes any kind of cannabis liberalisation in its Bayernplan: «Zero tolerance for drugs.

However, rather than implying a swift liberalisation of illicit drugs, Sefatian suggested another direction: re-introducing the cultivation of plants such as poppy and cannabis under state supervision; legalisation of cannabis and opium use under specific circumstances outlined by ad hoc laws, for instance, only in private places and for opium — as he told me — only for people above a certain age.

The comments come amid an unprecedented push for liberalisation in parliament, with a home affairs committee report calling for a deeper look into the consequences of decriminalisation of drugs.

Jacqui Smith reclassified cannabis from a Class C to a Class B drug when she was in Cabinet, following a liberalisation of the law under David Blunkett and Tony Blair a few years earlier.

Nick Clegg has gone further than ever before in calling for a liberalisation of Britain's drug laws, saying that «if you are anti-drugs you should be pro-reform».

On entering Parliament in 2001, Mr Cameron rose rapidly through the ranks, serving first on the Home Affairs Select Committee, which recommended the liberalisation of drug laws.