Under the penal reform of the justice minister Christiane Taubira, voted in 2014, a 'transaction pénale' for minor offences punishable by less than a year in prison, the use of cannabis among them, came into application on 15 October 2014. The interior minister Manuel Valls had said in April 2013 that he intended to make possession of a small quantity a fine- only matter, without giving an amount or a date.[1]
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