This petition was submitted during the 2017–2019 Conservative government
Rejected petition Government to address hypocrisy over existing Cannabis legislation
Many petitions have already been set up calling for the legalisation/decriminalisation of Cannabis; leading to the same cookie-cutter governmental response. But before change can occur, the government must acknowledge the blatant hypocrisy on display.
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1. The government claims there is no medical benefit to Cannabis, whilst creating/supplying Sativex/Epidiolex. The husband of Victoria Atkins, drugs minister to the UK, is the Managing Director of a company which produces Epidiolex; a medicine derived from Cannabis.
2. Every time a related petition is started, the government cites the same 10 year old study as justification for their claims (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/119174/acmd-cannabis-report-2008.pdf).
Not only is this study grossly outdated, omitting the latest research, many of the claims made by the government are shown to be inconclusive in the study paper itself.
We, the British people, demand answers, beyond the same, disingenuous response.
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