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UK man in court to have SA’s prohibited drugs list declared unconstitutional


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This may be the breakwater case?

Parliament should made a determination on this, we have till year-end to have the law changed.

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-02-21-uk-man-in-court-to-have-sas-prohibited-drugs-list-declared-unconstitutional/

 

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“They consequently can have no effect on the operation of the double criminality requirement in the present matter, because the offences for which the applicant’s extradition is sought arise from his (alleged) large-scale commercial cultivation and possession of dagga for commercial purposes.”

 

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Bassett explained that the British police searched Smit’s Penrith home in England and two units he was renting in industrial estates close-by during a raid in March 2008. In his house, they found dried dagga and a vacuum cleaner which had been adapted to dry it. In the units, they found 1,295 dagga plants growing under heat lamps, with an estimated street value (once mature and harvested) of between £57,185 and £95,983 (R1.1-million to R1.8-million). 

Personal use neh? 

He committed a crime in another country. This is more a case of extradition than that of the constitutionality of the trading of cannabis (or any other drug in the schedules act), which is a pity, as the legal question is an interesting one. Essentially this guy is just looking to avoid jail time in the UK. 

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