Speaker of Parliament, Alban S. K. Bagbin, has disclosed that the amendment to the Narcotics Control Commission Act (Act 1019) passed by Parliament in 2020 has not legalised the smoking of cannabis.
He said the recent amendment was meant to re-establish the Interior Minister’s discretionary powers to give licences for cultivation of a certain strain of cannabis for industrial and medical purposes, after the legal challenge of Section 43 of the law.
Speaker of Parliament, Alban S. K. Bagbin, has disclosed that the amendment to the Narcotics Control Commission Act (Act 1019) passed by Parliament in 2020 has not legalised the smoking of cannabis.
He said the recent amendment was meant to re-establish the Interior Minister’s discretionary powers to give licences for cultivation of a certain strain of cannabis for industrial and medical purposes, after the legal challenge of Section 43 of the law.
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