The Working Party on Drug Abuse, set up by the government in 1968, recommended reviewing the legal status of cannabis and not imprisoning people for possessing a small amount for their own use. The Misuse of Drugs Act of 1977 put cannabis in a category of its own, with fines for the first two offences.[1]
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