Submitted on Monday 6th May 2013
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Legalize Cannabis
Overview:
The wish is that Cannabis use for both medicinal and recreational use will be made legal.
The Rules:
1. 3 Oz limit
2. Legal age for purchase is 18
3. The same rules that apply for alcohol apply for cannabis
Reason:
There have been no deaths directly from using cannabis. This compares to 8,748 deaths from alcohol in 2011 alone. Therefore alcohol clearly holds bigger dangers to health than cannabis. If alcohol is legal then surely cannabis should also be.
Another point is that there are medicinal uses for the herb and it can be used for pain relief. In addition, there are many people who wish to use cannabis for recreational purposes.
Finally it would benefit the economy. Partly due to the fact that it cold be taxed and partly due to the fact that, were it legal, there would be no need to waste tax payers money on looking after people who use cannabis illegally as it would no longer be illegal.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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