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Fifty members of congress have signed a petition backing a partial legalisation, and have promised to make it a key debate in the runup to elections in November.
The modest reforms of the 1960s, including a partial legalisation of homosexuality, were pushed by the government of Harold Wilson in the absence of much popular demand.
Since recreational use of marijuana was legalised in Colorado and Washington in January, a dozen more states have indicated they are looking at introducing at least partial legalisation or medical use measures.
The head of the drug task force of the Expediency Council, Saeed Sefatian, at a recent drug conference in Tehran, proposed partial legalisation of cannabis and opium because they are less harmful than heroin and crystal meth.
As I argued recently in the Los Angeles Times, it might be possible to win GOP support to a partial legalisation scheme – either Dream or AgJobs – if Democrats were willing to include stepped-up enforcement (for example, a nationwide expansion of the E-Verify workplace verification system) as part of the same deal.
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In the current climate, where any legalisation, even a partial one, is dismissed by the far right as an unconscionable "amnesty", those reduced numbers count.
Prior to its legalisation, Cameron advocated for legalising same-sex marriage.
But legalisation is not likely.
Legalisation means the regulation of sex work.
On the other extreme is legalisation.
Legalisation would merely increase demand.
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