The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services invites the public to comment on the Cannabis for Private Purposes Bill. Click the link below to have your say.
- Cannabis is defined as anything containing the psychoactive THC (including vaping of cannabis-derived liquids).
- a maximum jail term of 15 years for anyone who deals in cannabis, or provides it to a child.
- Anyone who smokes cannabis in public, or too close to a window, or “in the immediate presence of any non-consenting adult person” may be jailed for up to two years.
- Smoking around children can result in up to four years in jail.
- unlimited for seeds and seedlings
- four flowering plants for those living alone, or eight for homes with two adults or more
- 600 grams of dried cannabis if you live alone, or 1.2 kilograms in homes with two or more adults.
- In public places, possession is set to 100 grams of cannabis or one flowering plant.
- 30 seeds or seedlings, or a mixture of the two
one flowering plant - 100 grams of dry cannabis.