This petition was submitted during the 2017-2019 parliament
Rejected petition Weed consumption and small scale growth legalisation.
It prevents black market profits made from the purchase of unchecked untested products.
It prevents people purchasing in black market conditions from being attacked, lied to, robbed or conned.
It keeps away from the public and people who don't partake in the use of cannabis.
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Why and when was cannabis first demonised ?
http://www.drugpolicy.org/blog/how-did-marijuana-become-illegal-first-place
Coincidentally UK banned it 1928, and its growth in 1964 and prescribed it untill I believe 1971.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.livescience.com/42738-marijuana-vs-alcohol-health-effects.html
https://www.tokeofthetown.com/2010/02/cannabis_casualty_brit_government_goes_after_scien.php/
Thousands of years using it medically and recreationally for a few people to say NO !
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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/242626
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