Tag: malta
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Cannabis reform consultation ends with 350 submissions
Tuesday, 18 May 2021
The cannabis reform White Paper attracted more than 350 submissions from organisations and individuals. Government is proposing full decriminalisation for adults in possession of 7g or less of cannab ...
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Cannabis reform: possession up to 7g, cultivation of four plants at home
Tuesday, 30 March 2021
Prime Minister Robert Abela of Malta launched a public consultation process on a White Paper to strengthen the legal framework on the repsonsible use of cannabis. The government is proposing that the ...
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The problem with cannabis is that it doesn’t have a label: Andrew Bonello
Wednesday, 24 February 2021
In Malta the Prime Minister has announced a White Paper on a possible new drug reform. Andrew Bonello: "In general, the gist of what the Prime Minister is proposing – that he is considering allowing ...
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Cannabis reform will allow users to grow plants for personal use, Robert Abela says
Thursday, 18 February 2021
Cannabis users will not be sent to prison and will be able to grow a limited amount of plants as part of government’s reform, Prime Minister Robert Abela said. This is the first time that a governmen ...
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ReLeaf calls on government to decriminalise cannabis cultivation, consumption and sharing
Tuesday, 09 February 2021
Cannabis legalisation advocacy group ReLeaf has told the Prime Minister to get on with the decriminalisation of cannabis cultivation and consumption in a meeting. ReLeaf president Andrew Bonello said ...
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Decriminalise adult cultivation of cannabis with clear rules, ReLeaf says
Friday, 11 December 2020
ReLeaf Malta has reiterated a call for the full decriminalisation of adult cultivation of cannabis by 2021. The cannabis law reform group said the Maltese government should prioritise the right to he ...
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Court rules 130g of cannabis were for personal use
Tuesday, 27 October 2020
A court has spared a man a sentence of up to 10 years in prison after more than 100g of cannabis was found in his car, ruling it was for personal use. Magistrate Doreen Clarke observed that there was ...
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New parliamentary secretary Rosianne Cutajar says it's time to implement cannabis reform
Wednesday, 15 January 2020
Rosianne Cutajar, in her new role as reforms parliamentary secretary, said that it is now time to start implementing the cannabis reform, which aims to legalise recreational cannabis. Prime Minister ...
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No mandatory prison sentence for personal cannabis cultivation under new rules
Thursday, 12 December 2019
The prison sentence for a woman who was cultivating cannabis for her personal use, has led to the proposal of legal amendments that will give the Maltese courts discretion on how to sentence such cas ...
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Drug law failing its purpose as undeserving people get jailed
Monday, 11 November 2019
A “draconian” drug law in Malta has forced a magistrate to jail a 39-year-old woman for six months for cultivating six small cannabis plants for her personal use – because “it fails to distinguish be ...
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Labour exponents call out Julia Farrugia Portelli over cannabis stance
Thursday, 19 September 2019
Parliamentary Secretary Julia Farrugia Portelli has come under fire from exponents in her party over comments on cannabis in a TV interview. Farrugia Portelli, who is entrusted with reforms, includin ...
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Cannabis legalisation lobby hopes for meeting with the President
Wednesday, 19 June 2019
Cannabis legalisation lobby group ReLeaf has expressed concern at 'reservations' by President George Vella on extending legal use of the drug beyond medical care. President Vella said that “as a doct ...
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No date yet for legalisation of marijuana, parliamentary secretary says
Tuesday, 07 May 2019
The Malta government has not yet set a date to motion a bill to potentially legalise recreational marijuana, parliamentary secretary for reforms Julia Farrugia Portelli has said. She confirmed that t ...
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ReLeaf urge government to present tangible proposals to legalise cannabis for personal use
Monday, 11 March 2019
Cannabis campaigners want government to present tangible proposals for the legalisation of marijuana for personal use as they contest fears that regulation will lead to a free for all. ReLeaf, an org ...
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Government register contradicts stated policy, cannabis smokers lobby says
Friday, 25 January 2019
Obliging Maltese cannabis smokers to register for them to have access to cannabis will achieve the opposite of the government’s stated aim of adopting a harm reduction approach, according to the pres ...
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Cannabis smokers will register with State under proposed reform
Thursday, 10 January 2019
Cannabis smokers in Malta will be asked to register with the government once a reform of the country's cannabis rules is implemented. “Government will be insisting on some principles, including a min ...
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Malta has officially legalised medical cannabis
Tuesday, 27 March 2018
Malta has officially legalised medical cannabis and has applied to import 15 kilos of cannabis for medical purposes. The amendments to the Drug Dependence Act (Treatment not Imprisonment) were enacte ...
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It’s about ‘harm-reduction’, not ‘recreational cannabis’
Sunday, 25 February 2018
Malta is poised to become a centre for the production of medical marijuana – while also relaxing its cannabis legislation further – after decades of a no-compromise, ‘zero tolerance’ policy towards a ...
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Malta Government and opposition parties call for debate, with a view to legalising and regulating cannabis
Saturday, 06 May 2017
A Labour government would initiate discussions on the use of cannabis for recreational use in Malta, eventually leading to its regularisation and taking it out of the hands of drug traffickers, accor ...
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