Tuesday, 20 June 2023

Bills

Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Amendment (Regulation of Personal Adult Use of Cannabis) Bill 2023

Introduction and first reading

Rachel PAYNE (South-Eastern Metropolitan) (13:13): I introduce a bill for an act to amend the Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Act 1981 to make it lawful for an adult to possess small quantities of cannabis for personal use, to make it lawful for an adult to cultivate not more than six cannabis plants for personal use, to permit an adult lawfully in possession of cannabis to give the cannabis by way of a gift to another adult and for other purposes, and I move:

That the bill be now read a first time.

Motion agreed to.

Read first time.

Rachel PAYNE: I move:

That the second reading be made an order of the day for the next day of meeting.

Motion agreed to.