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Despite a petition calling for the Government to legalise cannabis, and a study showing the drug is less deadly than alcohol, the Home Office is issuing "no comment" on the matter.
Last week, the parliamentary petition reached more than 200,000 signatures, meaning it would be considered for debate in the House of Commons.
At that time, the Home Office issued a crushing response claiming that "substantial scientific evidence shows cannabis is a harmful drug that can damage human health".
A journalist for the Independent asked the Home Office whether, given its view that cannabis causes "harm to individuals and society", if it believe that the class B drug cannabis is more harmful than alcohol? The reply was: "We wouldn't have anything to add to the Government response."
Back in February, a study published in Scientific Reports, a subsidiary of the journal Nature, found that weed is 114 times...
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