Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he plans to use data arising from the legalisation of cannabis in Canada to inform his Department’s policy on illicit drugs.

We consider approaches to drug policy from other countries as part of our work in delivering the 2017 Drugs Strategy.

The World Health Organisation's Expert Committee on Drug Dependence has committed to reviewing the scheduling of cannabis under the United Nation's 1961 Convention. This is due to consider the therapeutic use, as well as the dependence and the potential to abuse constituent parts of cannabis. We will await the outcome of this report before considering the next steps.