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France to roll out £2,100 on-the-spot fines for smoking cannabis

Police are to be given 5,000 portable bank card machines to immediately charge people who don’t have the cash to hand to pay €150 for a first offence. French President Emmanual Macron told the French daily LaProvence that it is ‘unacceptable’ that just 35% of cannabis fines handed since September 2020 have been paid. He said the new policy, to…