Malta set to legalise cannabis for personal use

Adults will be allowed to have up to seven grams of cannabis and grow up to four plants at home for their personal use, under legislation backed by Prime Minister Robert Abela's Labour party.

He said he wanted to maintain a tough stance on dealers, but spare parents the "trauma" of their child being arrested and hauled to court over a joint. Malta is often regarded as socially conservative but had already decriminalised the possession of small amounts of cannabis, passing legislation that promoted the island as a potential centre for the production of medical marijuana.

Consuming cannabis in public however remains illegal, punishable by a €235 fine, while consuming the drug in front of a child, whether in public or private, could trigger a penalty of between €300 and €500.

When will it be our turn that would be fantastic.

Shame our government would rather tax people more than use a free source of tax and put it's people behind bars over a plant.

Not a good move. In such a small island?

This is our research in the area

Time to legalise it here too!

Come on Ireland!!

Ireland should follow.

Has to happen here too

Why am I starting to get the feeling the UK and Ireland will be the last in world to legalise cannabis ? This issue of drugs reform is certainly identifying who the most backward countries are. Even Thailand is ahead of us.

Meanwhile in Ireland, the government has allowed drug gangs and cartels to have the monopoly on the unregulated drug market. FFG want our children to sell drugs to other children, prohibition has failed every country worldwide, legalisation/decriminalisation is needed obviously.

and I was stopped and searched by Garda at 2 pm in the afternoon, with a CBD half a joint, among 20 other people around, treated like a criminal: My dreadlocks were untied, bias? Who knows

Novel way to boost tourism ..

I don't do drugs but people should be allowed to do what they want legaliseit

crimlawuk thoughts?

Based and weed-pilled

Only a matter of time

I don’t take drugs…not my thing, but I can see the huge benefit of all drugs being legalised.

If the Government can all but mandate drugs with a side effects that include death they really don't have a leg to stand on criminalising a drug that has zero fatalities in 6,000 years of use.

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