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Recreational cannabis use should be legalised, regulated, and heavily taxed.

Submitted on Thursday 15th October 2020

Rejected on Thursday 22nd October 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

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Recreational cannabis use should be legalised, regulated, and heavily taxed.

Petition Details

The Home Offices own assessment shows 7.6% of adults have used cannabis in the past year (2.6 million Brits). Use increased by 1.1% since the drugs reclassification, showing this approach has been ineffective. The black community is disproportinatley affected by cannabis convictions.

Additional Information

A 2019 YouGov survey showed 48% of voters support the legalisation of cannabis for recreational use, compared to 24% who object.
Black community represents 5% of population but 20% of convictions.
In 2017 the UK had 7697 alcohol related deaths and 95,800 smoking related deaths in a stark contrast to the 3 deaths where cannabis was mentioned on the death certificate.
Regulation could reduce the number of harmful strains in circulation.
The industry could create jobs and additional tax revenue.


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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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