{"version":1,"id":"vu","name":"Vanuatu","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/country/vu/","count":4,"totals":{"reports":4,"arrested":0,"plants_destroyed":0,"hectares":0,"kg_seized":0,"deaths":0},"by_type":{"eradication":0,"seizure":0,"raid":0,"arrest":0,"prosecution":0,"sentence":4,"execution":0,"death":0},"latest":"2024-05-23","reports":[{"id":"vanuatu-five-plants-remand-2024","code":"CET-HZ17WK","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/vanuatu-five-plants-remand-2024/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/HZ17WK/","date":"2024-05-23","country":"vu","country_name":"Vanuatu","place":null,"coordinates":[-16.217,167.675],"precision":"country","type":"sentence","also":[],"title":"Vanuatu suspends a five-plant sentence after months already spent in custody","summary":"A first offender who grew five cannabis plants weighing 15.5 grams received a suspended sentence, sixty hours of community work and six months’ supervision.[@1] Brightly Kaiding had already spent three months and two days in custody before bail, which the court deducted from a nine-month term, leaving five months and twenty-eight days suspended for two years.[@1] The court treated the grow…","status":"verified","figures":{},"tags":["court","home-growing","sentencing"],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":"vanuatu-five-plants-remand-2024","sources":[{"title":"five plants, remand and a suspended sentence","url":"https://judiciary.gov.vu/court-activity/judgments/2359","publisher":"Public Prosecutor v Kaiding","date":null,"archived":null},{"title":"small cannabis grows and personal possession","url":"https://courts.gov.vu/court-activity/judgments/198","publisher":"Public Prosecutor v Lovis","date":null,"archived":null},{"title":"cannabis grown as a pest barrier","url":"https://courts.gov.vu/court-activity/judgments/107","publisher":"Public Prosecutor v Iauko","date":null,"archived":null},{"title":"Government maintains tight control on medical cannabis and industrial hemp","url":"https://vbr.vu/news/govt-maintains-tight-control-on-medical-cannabis-and-industrial-hemp/","publisher":"Vanuatu Business Review","date":null,"archived":null}]},{"id":"vanuatu-young-cannabis-seller-sentence-2019","code":"CET-XMC9Z5","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/vanuatu-young-cannabis-seller-sentence-2019/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/XMC9Z5/","date":"2019-03-01","country":"vu","country_name":"Vanuatu","place":null,"coordinates":[-16.217,167.675],"precision":"country","type":"sentence","also":[],"title":"Vanuatu suspends a young cannabis seller’s ten-month prison sentence","summary":"Kaston Niawiye received concurrent ten-month sentences, suspended for two years, for possession, cultivation and sale of cannabis, plus twelve months’ supervision.[@1] He had been eighteen when he sold rolls for an older relative; the court found no evidence that he grew his ten plants commercially or personally shared the sale proceeds.[@1] The judgment applied the personal-growing guidance…","status":"verified","figures":{},"tags":["court","youth","trafficking","sentencing"],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":"vanuatu-young-cannabis-seller-sentence-2019","sources":[{"title":"personal growing and low-level cannabis sales","url":"https://courts.gov.vu/court-activity/judgments/706","publisher":"Public Prosecutor v Niawiye","date":null,"archived":null}]},{"id":"vanuatu-village-growers-community-work-2017","code":"CET-ZR9QRC","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/vanuatu-village-growers-community-work-2017/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/ZR9QRC/","date":"2017-09-01","country":"vu","country_name":"Vanuatu","place":null,"coordinates":[-16.217,167.675],"precision":"country","type":"sentence","also":[],"title":"Vanuatu gives eight villagers community work for cannabis offences","summary":"Eight first offenders from Bankir village on Malekula each received fifty hours of community work and six months’ probation for cannabis cultivation or possession.[@1] The case concerned conduct dating to 2009, with several defendants describing single small plants.[@1] The judge applied the 2013 personal-growing guidance and warned one defendant that his church belief did not permit him to…","status":"verified","figures":{},"tags":["court","home-growing","religion","sentencing"],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":"vanuatu-village-growers-community-work-2017","sources":[{"title":"small cannabis grows and personal possession","url":"https://courts.gov.vu/court-activity/judgments/198","publisher":"Public Prosecutor v Lovis","date":null,"archived":null}]},{"id":"vanuatu-pest-barrier-cannabis-2017","code":"CET-PM3955","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/vanuatu-pest-barrier-cannabis-2017/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/PM3955/","date":"2017-05-15","country":"vu","country_name":"Vanuatu","place":null,"coordinates":[-16.217,167.675],"precision":"country","type":"sentence","also":[],"title":"Vanuatu gives community work to a man who grew cannabis to deter rats","summary":"Roro Iauko received sixty hours of community service after admitting that he had planted twenty-six cannabis plants as a pest barrier in his garden.[@1] The judge accepted that the crop was intended for horticultural use, but ruled that this purpose did not provide a defence to unlawful cultivation.[@1] Applying the 2013 guidance, he placed the case at the lower end of the personal-growing…","status":"verified","figures":{},"tags":["court","home-growing","sentencing"],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":"vanuatu-pest-barrier-cannabis-2017","sources":[{"title":"cannabis grown as a pest barrier","url":"https://courts.gov.vu/court-activity/judgments/107","publisher":"Public Prosecutor v Iauko","date":null,"archived":null},{"title":"Industrial Hemp and Medical Cannabis Act No. 31 of 2021","url":"https://faolex.fao.org/docs/pdf/van225914.pdf","publisher":"faolex.fao.org","date":null,"archived":null},{"title":"Consolidated Edition 2006","url":"https://tradeportal.gov.vu/media/Dangerous%20Drugs%20Act%20No.%2025%20of%202005_1.pdf","publisher":"Dangerous Drugs Act, Cap. 12","date":null,"archived":null}]}]}