Well. i would have never guessed!
Key points
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Rejection of inquiry recommendations: The government declined to support the inquiry’s proposals for decriminalising small quantities, permitting home cultivation, or broader adult-use reforms. This is stated in its formal response to the Regulation of Personal Adult Use of Cannabis Bill.
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Focus remains on current policy framework: The response signals that existing laws and regulatory approach will continue, with no immediate move to legalise or broadly decriminalise cannabis in Victoria.
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Medicinal cannabis and related driving/medical provisions: While the broader reform was halted, ongoing issues around medicinal cannabis use and associated driving rules have been a separate policy track, with prior amendments and debates continuing to shape practice and enforcement
Cannabiz Aus
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Here’s what the two sitting members of the cannabis party in the Victorian upper house, Rachel Payne & David Ettershank have to say and unsurprisingly they aren’t overjoyed
BREAKING: The Allan Labor Government is walking away from sensible cannabis law reform. And to put it mildly, we’re pissed.
Sadly, the government has made this decision out of fear of losing a law-and-order election.
Yet at a time when the government is cutting vital services, it is willing to waste many millions of dollars locking up thousands of our fellow Victorians for the victimless crime of possessing a bit of c*nnabis, a disproportionate number of whom are young people, First Nations and culturally diverse people.
It flies in the face of evidence-based policy, community sentiment, and common sense.
We will spend every minute of the next 13 months reminding the government of this.
Hansard 15 October 2025
Amongst other topics including golf clubs , Kangaroo control & Midsumma festival there’s this exchange
I’ve just popped over to the enquiries website but whoever updates the website hasn’t kept up with events as we are still waiting a response from govt as of 16 October 2025
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