With a wider reform of Law 52 blocked in parliament, the National Security Council under President Beji Caid Essebsi let judges grant a pardon as soon as a first cannabis-use conviction is pronounced, so the person avoids prison. Trials under the law had risen from 732 in 2011 to 5,744 in 2016.[1]
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