Page 4559 - Week 15 - Tuesday, 6 December 1994

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I must be very dense. Surely, if it is all right to use cannabis for personal purposes, it is also all right to use cannabis for medicinal purposes? Is not a medicinal purpose a personal purpose? Would not an ordinary person be entitled to think that this Government over here, which trades in tarradiddles day in, day out in this place, and which relies on hysteria on this question, might have taken a different position? Of course they did not.

Question put:

That the motion (Ms Follett's) be agreed to.

The Assembly voted -

AYES, 15   NOES, 2

Mr Berry  Mr Moore

Mrs Carnell Ms Szuty

Mr Connolly

Mr Cornwell

Mr De Domenico

Ms Ellis

Ms Follett

Mrs Grassby

Mr Humphries

Mr Kaine

Mr Lamont

Ms McRae

Mr Stefaniak

Mr Stevenson

Mr Wood

Question so resolved in the affirmative, with the concurrence of an absolute majority.

Reconsideration

MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (3.39): I move:

That:

(1) the resolution of the Assembly of 30 November 1994, relating to the agreement of the Drugs of Dependence (Amendment) Bill 1994, as amended, be rescinded;

(2) clause 5 of the Bill be reconsidered in the detail stage, pursuant to standing order 187; and

(3) reconsideration of clause 5 of the Bill in detail stage commence forthwith.

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