This petition was submitted during the 2017-2019 parliament
Rejected petition Decriminalise marijuana, and legalise for medical and recreational use.
There is a countless amount of evidence backing up marijuana to not only be a recreational drug, but a medical phenomenon. Patients are having to flee the UK to other countries that have moved with the times and have legalised/decriminalised.
Why are we so far behind the rest of the world?
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On the 12th October 2015 they said: "Substantial scientific evidence shows cannabis is a harmful drug that can damage human health."
Well we now know that cannabis isn't a "harmful" drug that damages health. In fact the opposite. Here is a link to UK CHILD that had to flee the country because rules on a plant in the soil.
https://goo.gl/h48peQ
Business insider UK even made a list for the top 23 health
benefits for cannabis.
https://goo.gl/HesB19
How can anyone say it damages human health?
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