# drugs and drug trafficking Amendment Bill

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- Published: 2022-09-13T13:42:43+02:00
- Author: dearSA

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### **365**** **comments delivered, closed 16 September 2022

### Parliament’s Justice and Correctional Services Portfolio Committee invited the public to comment on the New Drugs and Drug Trafficking Amendment Bill of 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”.

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