This petition was submitted during the 2015-2017 parliament
Rejected petition Make cannabis in all forms legal to sell, buy and produce
Legalising cannabis could bring in £900m in taxes every year, save £400m on policing a year and could create over 10,000 new jobs if not more. It is believed to have been used by humans for over 4000 years, being made illegal in the UK in 1925
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It has been proven many times it is safer than alcohol and tobacco, this year the US government have admitted that cannabis kill cancer cells, also studies that ended this year show that cannabis users no more likely to experience depression, psychosis or asthma also other studies have shown that cannabis doesn't shrink your brain, if you legalised it you can control it and it's potency, no more weed dealers so less money in the drug world and more money for the country
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