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Mayor backs report's call for cannabis law reform

James W Kelly
BBC London
PA Media Sir Sadiq Khan is seen in a white shirt standing in the middle of a commercial cannabis cultivation facility, surrounded by rows of mature marijuana plants growing under artificial lights.PA Media
Sir Sadiq Khan, who visited a legal cannabis farm during a trip to Los Angeles in 2022, said the UK's rules "cannot be justified"

The possession of small quantities of cannabis for personal use should be decriminalised, a report backed by the London mayor has concluded.

The report by the London Drugs Commission, chaired by former Labour cabinet minister Lord Falconer, makes 42 recommendations, including removing natural cannabis from the Misuse of Drugs Act (MDA).

Lord Falconer told BBC Radio Four's Today programme that “continuing to have possession as a crime meant continuing have problems between the police and ethnic communities".

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner said the report's recommendations were "not the government position and we are not going to be changing our policy".