The draft ganja reform bill, which is intended to repeal custodial sentences for possession of 30 grammes and under of cannabis, is among proposed legislation that has been approved by Cabinet for tabling at the next sitting of the National Assembly, Director General of the Minis-try of the Presidency Joseph Harmon announced yesterday.
Harmon told a press conference at the Ministry of the Presidency that Cabinet approved the draft amendment of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Sub-stances (Control) Amendment Bill 2019 that was submitted to it at its meeting in Linden on April 30th, 2019. He said that Cabinet was assured that the bill in its amended form was in keeping “with the report on CARICOM’s Regional Commission on Marijuana 2018 and was not in conflict with the Tobacco Control Act.”
He explained that through the amendments, government proposes that 30 grammes or fewer of marijuana would not attract incarceration. “Cabinet agreed that the bill will be laid in the National Assembly for passage into law,” he said.
