Dear Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services,


Please see my comments below regarding the proposed cannabis for private purposes bill.

This bill is irrational and full of ambiguity. How can I grow my own cannabis when the purchase and sale of seeds remains illegal. Medical grade cannabis does not just grow wild for me to collect. Those seeds need to be in most cases purchased, and imported. Seeds contain zero THC.

The suggested penalties are ridiculous. We are talking about growing a plant in private, yet the penalties are as harsh and even harsher than violent contact crimes.

The Constitutional court decriminalized Cannabis for private use. The bill in it's current draft, seeks to recriminalize aspects of private use.

Once privacy is regulated as this bill intends to, then it's simply not privacy anymore. This violates my privacy.

It is my humble opinion that this bill is unconstitutional, unenforceable and with the current state of SAPS and the NPA not policable.

Thank you