UK Government Response To Cannabis Petition: Fatuous, Dishonest And Misleading.

 

ver 203,000 people have signed the petition on the government’s website to ‘Make the production, sale and use of cannabis legal’.  All petitions that pass 100,000 signatures are considered for a debate in the House of Commons and when MPs return from their summer break, the petitions committee will have a hard time refusing a debate on a petition that has doubled the required threshold.

On Tuesday the government published its response to the petition.  It is no surprise at all because it consists of the same misleading words that the Home Office has been parroting for many years.  They are also the same words which dozens of MPs have used to dismiss out of hand their constituents’ letters and emails on the subject.  Read the response in full here (and sign the petition, if you haven’t already done so): https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/104349

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