Legalise (or at least decriminalise) cannabis in Jersey and the Channel Islands.

Rejected 10 signatures

What the petition asks

By legalising (minimum decriminalising) cannabis we can help to make our society better.

If we legalise cannabis we could save all the time, money & resources spent on policing etc. & put the money made back into the local economy, housing, the arts, education, hospitals & the care industry.

Using figures from 2013 it costs on average between £20k and £45k to keep a prisoner in a UK prison, the amount increases with the severity of the criminal offences the prisoner is charged with.

Over crowded prisons are bleeding money, if the government can't keep drugs out of prisons how do they plan to keep them off the street? Prohibition has failed, the time for change is now.

Outside of the known medicinal benefits (which seem to increase daily) there are numerous monetary benefits too.

Why it was rejected

It asked for something that is not the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.

The UK Parliament doesn't make the law in Jersey and the Channel Islands.

You can find out about petitions to the States of Jersey here:

https://www.gov.je/Government/Comments/Pages/PetitionStates.aspx

Timeline

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

Key facts

Signatures 10

Status Rejected

Rejected 26 Nov 2015

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