Public comment closes on Friday 16th September. I implore all South Africans to use THIS LINK to comment as a matter of urgency.
Parliament’s Justice and Correctional Services Portfolio Committee has invited the public to comment on the New Drugs and Drug Trafficking Amendment Bill of 2022, but says all submissions must be in by 16 September 2022.
- The most controversial aspect to the Amendment is the continued criminalization of cannabis and cannabis-related substances in Schedule 2 of the proposed Act. This has been identified by Government and private sector stakeholders as the biggest impediment to enabling a regulated cannabis economy to get off the ground. What’s even more astounding is that state regulators had dropped cannabis from Schedule 2 in their early deliberations, and then re-inserted it in order to “maintain the status quo”."
