Petition · past parliament

Legalise medical cannabis in Scotland;allow 4 plants 18 seedlings 24 oz medicine

Rejected 17 signatures

What the petition asks

Thousands are suffering, while our government tells us cannabis has no medicinal value. GW Pharma, supported by the UK gov grows 60 tonnes a year. It obviously has medicinal value. Cannabis is medicine. Legalise it immediately.
Granny Storm Crow's List 2015
University of Toronto
Harvard Medical School
JAMA
Raphael Mechoulam Ph.D Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Rick Simpson
A quarter million citizens who signed the petition to legalise cannabis

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

Timeline

23 Nov 2015 Petition opened for signatures
3 Dec 2015 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 17
Status Rejected
Rejected 3 Dec 2015

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.