Three judges of the Windhoek High Court are set to hear oral arguments in early July on whether an attempt to have the outlawing of cannabis in Namibia declared unconstitutional is ripe to be decided at this stage.
The oral arguments are to be heard by judges Dinnah Usiku, Claudia Claasen and Philanda Christiaan on 2 July, High Court registrar Elsie Schickerling informed lawyers representing the parties involved in the constitutional challenge in a letter on Tuesday.
The plaintiffs in the case, Ganja Users of Namibia (GUN) president Brian Jaftha and GUN secretary general Borro Ndungula, want the High Court to declare the prohibition of the possession and use of cannabis by adults in Namibia as unconstitutional.
Jaftha, who is also the president of the Rastafari United Front, representing Rastafarians in Namibia, and Ndungula are further asking the court to order that all mentions of cannabis should be removed from the Abuse of Dependence-Producing Substances and Rehabilitation Centres Act of 1971, in which the possession of cannabis is criminalised.
Jaftha and Ndungula are suing Namibia’s prosecutor general, the inspector general of the Namibian Police, the minister of justice, the minister of health and social services, and the government as defendants in their constitutional challenge.
Read more at the Namibian
High Court to hear case on whether cannabis ban in Namibia is unconstitutional
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