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Decriminalize the production and personal use of cannabis.

Submitted on Friday 8th January 2016

Rejected on Thursday 24th March 2016

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

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Decriminalize the production and personal use of cannabis.

Petition Details

Cannabis could actually be the safest drug available, after a study found it is actually 114 times less deadly than alcohol, according to the journal, Scientific Reports
Weed can kill cancer cells-The US government has confirmed- and can also shrink some of the most serious types of brain tumours.

Additional Information

If cannabis were legalized, up to £900m could be raised annually in taxes, according to the Institute for Economic Research.
In Colorado, legalizing cannabis has actually led to a drop in the number of young people smoking it.


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This petition was rejected

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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