What are the lessons from America’s great cannabis liberalisation experiment?

By Amir Englund, Research Fellow, Pharmaceutical Sciences, King's College London

The US has come quite some way in legalising cannabis use, with nearly half of states having laws permitting recreational cannabis use. Yet the legalisation of cannabis remains an ever-present, heated and polarising debate. One that is often exploited by politicians to win votes, either by stoking fear of the harms that will come from legalising cannabis, or by the promise of decreased violent crime and increased tax revenue from cannabis…

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