The decriminalisation of cannabis possession offences is needed to mitigate disproportionate drugs policing and the ‘hyper criminalisation’ of ethic minorities, according to leading policy researchers. A new report from the drug reform charity Release (Regulating Right, Repairing Wrongs: Exploring Equity and Social Justice Initiatives within UK Cannabis Reform) has drawn attention to how the ‘skewed enforcement of drug laws has exacerbated racial profiling and the hyper-criminalisation of ethnic minority groups’, as well as ‘those who are socio-economically deprived, and of other disadvantaged groups’.
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