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Breaking cannabis news and policy updates from across the United Kingdom.
With speculation mounting over Britain's next leader, reform advocates are asking whether a Burnham premiership could finally move cannabis policy beyond the Westminster stalemate — despite his past caution.
A fortified Mansfield warehouse containing nearly 5,000 cannabis plants has led to prison sentences of up to three years for six men, in what Nottinghamshire Police call their biggest haul on record.
Officers uncovered two residential cannabis grows in Alvaston and Linton within the same day, seizing more than 200 plants and making one arrest following community-led intelligence.
James Furlong, 23, has been sentenced to three years after Merseyside Police found cannabis being cultivated in a bedroom cupboard beside a baby's cot at his Huyton home.
Border Force has seized 12 tonnes of cannabis hidden in two shipping containers from Canada at Southampton Port — the largest cannabis haul in the agency's history, with an estimated street value of £139 million.
An international review in Lancet Psychiatry finds decriminalisation and strict regulation do not appear to increase cannabis use — but for-profit commercial sales are linked to higher usage, potency and mental health harms.
A representative YouGov survey of more than 2,000 adults finds 47% support legalising cannabis, while a three-way split shows growing appetite for reform beyond the status quo.