Petition · past parliament
Decriminalise marijuana, and legalise for medical and recreational use.
Rejected
11 signatures
What the petition asks
There is a countless amount of evidence backing up marijuana to not only be a recreational drug, but a medical phenomenon. Patients are having to flee the UK to other countries that have moved with the times and have legalised/decriminalised.
Why are we so far behind the rest of the world?
Why are we so far behind the rest of the world?
On the 12th October 2015 they said: "Substantial scientific evidence shows cannabis is a harmful drug that can damage human health."
Well we now know that cannabis isn't a "harmful" drug that damages health. In fact the opposite. Here is a link to UK CHILD that had to flee the country because rules on a plant in the soil.
https://goo.gl/h48peQ
Business insider UK even made a list for the top 23 health
benefits for cannabis.
https://goo.gl/HesB19
How can anyone say it damages human health?
Well we now know that cannabis isn't a "harmful" drug that damages health. In fact the opposite. Here is a link to UK CHILD that had to flee the country because rules on a plant in the soil.
https://goo.gl/h48peQ
Business insider UK even made a list for the top 23 health
benefits for cannabis.
https://goo.gl/HesB19
How can anyone say it damages human health?
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
Timeline
| 14 Sep 2017 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 14 Sep 2017 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
11
Status
Rejected
Rejected
14 Sep 2017
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.