Legalising cannabis ‘could earn Treasury £3.5bn’

The Lib Dems and Greens favour a regulated cannabis market, and 47% people in the UK support selling the drug in licensed shops.Introducing a legal cannabis market to the UK could earn the Treasury between £1bn and £3.5bn a year in tax revenues, a report has suggested.Health Poverty Action, an international development organisation, claims that regulating and legalising cannabis in the UK is an “idea whose time has come” and that the windfall could be used to plug the gap