Marie Claire Camilleri was sentenced to six months in prison for growing a single cannabis sapling, without buds, on her roof; the magistrate himself said the law failed to distinguish who truly deserved prison. Days later the justice minister, Owen Bonnici, presented amendments giving courts discretion not to jail people who showed that their cultivation was strictly for personal use. Cultivation stayed illegal.[1]
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