This petition was submitted during the 2015–2017 Conservative government
Rejected petition Make alcohol and tobacco illegal, to fairly represent their associated harms
An official government petition received over 200,000 signatures to legalise cannabis.
The Tory government outright dismissed this, citing the dangers of the drug based on skewed "evidence".
Given that alcohol and tobacco ARE proven to be worse, it is only fair that they too are made illegal.
More details
Extensive scientific research has concluded that alcohol and tobacco are up to 114 times more dangerous than cannabis: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4311234/
"A new study suggests alcohol is more dangerous than heroin or crack": http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/11/drugs_cause_most_harm (Drug harms in the UK: a multi-criteria decision analysis", by David Nutt, Leslie King and Lawrence Phillips, on behalf of the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs. The Lancet.)
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