GOVERNMENT AGREES TO DEBATE CANNABIS LEGALISATION: GOOD NEWS OR NO NEWS?

When we last signed off on the petition to ‘make the production, sale, and use of cannabis legal’, back in July, we left it on a still-rising total of 116,893 signatures. Well, we’re stumbling our way through September and the petition currently stands at 215,308 signatures and rising. The number of signatures required on a petition for it to be considered for a government debate is 100,000. As you’ll note, that’s a total that had already been surpassed when we previously discussed it(alongside the legalisation debate as a whole). In fact, that total had been cleared in the petition’s first five days of going live.

With over two months under its belt, and over two times the amount of votes required, where does this petition stand? Well, it has both received an official government response, and now finally been scheduled in for a debate; one month from now on October 12th....

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