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04-22-2006, 03:26 PM
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
http://www.caymannetnews.com/cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000012/001247.htm
Five joint select committees of the Senate will be reconvened during the legislative year to conclude deliberations on various matters.
Among them are the National Commission on Ganja, which has been meeting for more than two years and the committee considering the long-awaited flexible work arrangements.
Last week, new Leader of Government Business in the Senate, Senator AJ Nicholson, passed a resolution to have the committees reconvened.
In 2001, Professor Barry Chevannes who headed the Commission on Ganja, recommended that the Dangerous Drugs Act be amended specifically to allow, without possibility of criminal sanction, the private use of ganja.
The Chevannes Commission also recommended that the use of ganja for religious purposes be recognised as lawful, and suggested, among other things, that ganja use by children should remain legally prohibited.
The range of proposals made by the Chevannes Commission was considered by Parliament in 2003, and although there appears to have been fairly broad support for some types of amendment to the law, the Dangerous Drugs Act has remained unchanged.
Parliament has been slow in making legislative changes for a variety of reasons, but perhaps the most important of these concerns the question of international laws.
http://www.caymannetnews.com/cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000012/001247.htm
Five joint select committees of the Senate will be reconvened during the legislative year to conclude deliberations on various matters.
Among them are the National Commission on Ganja, which has been meeting for more than two years and the committee considering the long-awaited flexible work arrangements.
Last week, new Leader of Government Business in the Senate, Senator AJ Nicholson, passed a resolution to have the committees reconvened.
In 2001, Professor Barry Chevannes who headed the Commission on Ganja, recommended that the Dangerous Drugs Act be amended specifically to allow, without possibility of criminal sanction, the private use of ganja.
The Chevannes Commission also recommended that the use of ganja for religious purposes be recognised as lawful, and suggested, among other things, that ganja use by children should remain legally prohibited.
The range of proposals made by the Chevannes Commission was considered by Parliament in 2003, and although there appears to have been fairly broad support for some types of amendment to the law, the Dangerous Drugs Act has remained unchanged.
Parliament has been slow in making legislative changes for a variety of reasons, but perhaps the most important of these concerns the question of international laws.