Petition · past parliament
Make medical cannabis legal for GP prescription
Rejected
16 signatures
What the petition asks
To many children and people in the UK are struggling at the hands of our government the uk is to ignorant to even consider extensive research on this medical cannabis or cannabis in general has an immense amount of health benefits for chemotherapy patients people with depression epilepsy and more.
As you may know a lot of countries like Canada or the USA are now decriminalising cannabis because of its major health benefits for people with cancer,epilepsy,depression,anxiety ect ect to many children with epilepsy are suffering the uk should legalise cannabis as it can also help the economy majorly the police would now not need to spend millions of pounds on fighting cannabis that could insted be used towards are failing NHS if the NHS sold this it could increase there budget please share.
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
Timeline
| 28 Jan 2019 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 5 Feb 2019 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
16
Status
Rejected
Rejected
5 Feb 2019
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.