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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 UK: MPs Forced To Consider Debate On Legalising Cannabis Next Month 🌿UK: MPs Forced To Consider Debate On Legalising Cannabis Next Month
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The subscription service is currently unavailable. Please try again later.An e-petition to legalise cannabis managed to reach 100,000 signatures at the end of July, the milestone means MPs are forced to consider debate the issue in Parliament.
Outlining benefits of decriminalising the drug, citing financial, policing and employment boons, the call to “Make the production, sale and use of cannabis legal” has now been backed over 190,000 times.
The Petitions Committee will meet in September to decide a date for when the House of Commons will discuss the issue. The body has previously said that petitions with over 100,000 names are “almost always” debated.
Started by James Richard Owen, the petition reached the required support well before its 21 January 2016 deadline, and claims that, legalising cannabis could bring in £900m in taxes every year, save £400m on policing cannabis and create over 10,000 new jobs.
“A substance that is safer than alcohol, and has many uses”...
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