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Make the use of medical and recreational cannabis legal in the UK

Submitted on Tuesday 19th April 2016

Rejected on Thursday 28th April 2016

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Make the use of medical and recreational cannabis legal in the UK

Petition Details

Legalising cannabis could bring in up to £900m each year, save millions of pounds on the policing of a plant and offer unto 15,000 jobs.

Additional Information

A substance which is safer than alcohol and has many uses, some of which help the human body. Alcohol cause 2.5 million deaths worldwide a year. Cannabis causes none

Last year, Colorado, the first state to introduce legal recreational cannabis, brought $996m, $200m of which went to the school system.

So why shouldn't it be legal?


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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.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

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