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UK: POLL RESULTS – do Journal readers think cannabis should be legalised? NDJJosephW North Devon Jornal Tuesday 13 Oct 2015 Out of 426 readers who took the time to vote yes or no to the question "should cannabis be legalised?", a whopping 80% said yes. The Journal opened the poll yesterday morning, to coincide with the debate in parliament on the legalisation of the production, sale and use of cannabis yesterday. This was brought about by an online petition which drew 220,000 signatures. This made it the third most popular petition on Parliament's website. During the debate, Liberal Democrat health spokesman Norman Lamb said that "probably 50% of the government have tried cannabis", meaning it was hypocritical to criminalise young people for possessing it. Labour MP Paul Flynn spoke of the benefits cannabis brings to sufferers of multiple sclerosis and pointed to what he said was a successful decriminalisation of the drug in Portugal. However, Conservative government justice minister Mike Penning was unmoved. He told Mr Lamb during the debate: "I am not going to stand here and say we are going to legalise cannabis. From a moral position, from a government position, from a personal position." He suggested there would be many people against legalising the drug, they just haven't set up a petition. However, he did say there may scope for doing research in the effects legalisation might have. ans of the Journal's Facebook page joined in the debate Ryan Titheradge wrote: "The legalisation of weed could bring in hundreds of thousands/ millions of pounds to the economy instead of spending money arresting people for it. Look at the places in America that have legalised. "Not the most pressing issue but in regards to crime numbers and money that can be made for the UK, it's a pretty big thing." Denise Ranner replied to Ryan, and said: "Most of that revenue will be taken up treating cases of psychosis strongly connected to cannabis use, quite often those convicted of petty crime claim their use of cannabis was to blame. "It's an undeniable fact that cannabis changes the chemical balance of the user's brain, it's not all bad, but it certainly isn't all good either. Using the USA as a model is unfortunate bearing in mind their 'Bang bang, you're dead' culture." Kieran Parr wrote: "Well it's been illegal for as long as I can remember and people still manage to get their hands on it, so it might as well be legalised." Henry Ranger wrote: "Definitely as it would generate so much income into our economy. A lot of states in America have done it and there making so much money off of it that they are giving back to the tax payer." Peter Sawyer said: "Mental illness and cannabis use both on the increase. Not hard to work out it scrambles the eggs!" David Flynn said: "No, if you need drugs to survive in this world then you need some form of counselling, it's a joke, drugs are the weak way out!" http://www.northdevonjournal.co.uk/8203-POLL-RESULTS-8211-Journal-readers-think/story-27975507-detail/story.html
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