The Controlled Drugs and Substances Act received royal assent and took the place of the Narcotic Control Act. A Senate committee had recommended no significant changes to the bill, although several of its members favoured decriminalising possession; its chair said such a proposal would be politically futile. The committee did approve an amendment taking mature hemp stalks out of the definition of marijuana.[1][2]
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