Bill
Criminal Code and Other Legislation Amendment (Removing Commonwealth Restrictions on Cannabis) Bill 2018
lapsed, as at 2019-07-01.
- Sponsor
- LEYONHJELM, Sen David
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2018-05-09
- second reading — 2018-05-09
- second reading — 2018-10-15
- other — 2019-07-01
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2018-05-09.
The bill would let state and territory governments decide whether to legalise and regulate cannabis.
It would stop federal regulations and ministerial decisions from listing cannabis as a controlled or border controlled substance.
The changes would take effect one year after the bill receives royal assent.
- Removes cannabis from lists of controlled and border controlled drugs, plants and precursors in Commonwealth criminal law.
- Excludes cannabis from offences for importing psychoactive substances and from the definition of narcotic drugs under the Crimes (Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances) Act 1990.
- Repeals regulations that list cannabis as a controlled plant and removes related definitions from the Defence Force Discipline Act 1982.
State and territory governments, adults who use cannabis, and Commonwealth law enforcement agencies.
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