🇻🇺 Vanuatu
4 reports of cannabis enforcement.
Totals add up only what the reports state; most operations are never reported in numbers.
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Vanuatu suspends a five-plant sentence after months already spent in custody
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…
Vanuatu suspends a young cannabis seller’s ten-month prison sentence
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…
Vanuatu gives eight villagers community work for cannabis offences
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…
Vanuatu gives community work to a man who grew cannabis to deter rats
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…
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