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Cannabis reform: a socialist response
As the movement for legal cannabis gains momentum worldwide, the left must reject libertarian logic and think seriously about how it can best be integrated into social life safely, writes ISAAC KNEEBONE-HOPKINS
Medical cannabis has been legal in Britain since 2018. There are about 7,000 people with cannabis prescriptions, but due to lack of understanding and medical guidelines forcing cannabis to be prescribed off label, almost all prescriptions come from private clinics, with only three people receiving it on the NHS.
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
ON JANUARY 25, 2022 the Thai Narcotics Control Board announced it would drop cannabis from the list of controlled drugs. This de facto decriminalises the drug, making Thailand the first country in south-east Asia to do so.
In the US an estimated 428,000 people now work in the legal cannabis industry with 38 states allowing medical marijuana and 18 states having legalised recreational use too.
In Europe Germany, Luxembourg and Malta all announced last year that they would be moving towards legalising recreational use.
There’s momentum behind the global campaign to legalise cannabis and good reasons for socialists to join the push. In Britain according to a YouGov poll 52 per cent support cannabis legalisation.
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