Submitted on Friday 27th March 2020
Rejected on Tuesday 12th May 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Legalise Cannabis following the Covid-19 epidemic to boost economic growth
Legalise the controlled growth and sale of recreational Cannabis in order to aide the rebuilding of the national economy. The shutdown of all no essential business’s is forecast to plunge Global economies into another financial crisis, so now new forms of revenue now need to be considered.
Colorado was one of the first US states to legalise Cannabis, and it’s taxing system of 15% on licensed growers plus another 15% on final customers has brought the state in over $270 million in tax revenue. Compare that to the states annual Alcohol tax takings of only $45 million in the same year. A revenue stream of this size would be very beneficial to rebuilding the UK economy. It would also reduce the sale of illegal Cannabis which funds human trafficking, child exploitation and prostitution
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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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You may wish to sign these petitions calling for the same action:
Make cannabis legal for recreational use for ages 21+: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300201
Legalise Cannabis for recreational and medicinal purposes: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300475
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