Submitted on Thursday 27th August 2015
Rejected on Friday 28th August 2015
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Make alcohol and tobacco illegal, to fairly represent their associated harms
An official government petition received over 200,000 signatures to legalise cannabis.
The Tory government outright dismissed this, citing the dangers of the drug based on skewed "evidence".
Given that alcohol and tobacco ARE proven to be worse, it is only fair that they too are made illegal.
Extensive scientific research has concluded that alcohol and tobacco are up to 114 times more dangerous than cannabis: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4311234/
"A new study suggests alcohol is more dangerous than heroin or crack": http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/11/drugs_cause_most_harm (Drug harms in the UK: a multi-criteria decision analysis", by David Nutt, Leslie King and Lawrence Phillips, on behalf of the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs. The Lancet.)
You can't sign this petition because it was rejected. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!
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.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
We cannot accept duplicate petitions. We think this petition is similar to yours:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/106715
You might like to sign this petition instead. It is more likely to get more signatures that way.
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