Julien Bayou tables an amendment to legalize cannabis

In addition to extending the therapeutic cannabis experiment, which the’amendment was adopted in committee, the National Assembly could legalize cannabis.

An amendment filed by Green Party lawmaker Julien Bayou in fact proposes creating an excise tax for cannabis and its products, similar to the one for tobacco.

«Thus, the amendment aims to regain control of cannabis and cannabis products by creating an excise tax, similar to alcohol and tobacco, and to direct these funds toward prevention and awareness policies,» summarizes his Table of Contents.

The taxes collected would be allocated to the «sickness, maternity, disability, and death branch« of the general scheme and would thus create an additional resource for the basic mandatory social security schemes.

If the text is insufficient to regulate the production and sale of cannabis, it would «technically» legalize cannabis. It would then be up to the government to establish a regulatory framework.

The amendment is signed by the members of the EELV group in the National Assembly.

Like we had already noted it, the Social Affairs Committee had deemed inadmissible an amendment proposed by the same group and proposing the legalization of cannabis, under Article 40 of the Constitution which prohibits any creation or increase of a public burden and only allows the reduction of a public resource to the extent that it is offset by an increase in another resource.

Does this new amendment have a chance of passing? If it could interest people beyond the ranks of EELV, the use of «49.3» could circumvent its examination, it specifies. Le Parisien Who initially uncovered Julien Bayou's amendment?.