This petition was submitted during the 2010-2015 parliament
Rejected petition Legalize weed in Scotland
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If Weed/cannabis was legalized in Scotland:
•England, Irland and Wales would be sure to follow.
•There would a massive income for the Scottish Goverment by taxing weed/cannabis
•Sufferers of depression, Aids, Epilepsy and many more illnesses may be cured or thier pain eased.
•it will indefinitely be age limited to at least 21 years of age.
•buying from the Goverment will put small time dealers out of buisness or lessen thier profit therefore affecting the drug trade altogether.
Thier is proven facts from doctors and psychological professors that weed in the long term does not affect physical or mental state. One doctor when asked if he thought smoking weed would give you difficulties in later life, he replied "there's as much chance of you having one glass of wine and becoming an alchoholic as thier is of thier being any mental or physical difficulties from smoking a joint".
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