--- title: "Legal and Social Issues Committee: reference (Victorian Legislative Council, 11 September 2024) | Politics Computer" description: "Voting yes supported referring the Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Amendment (Regulation of Personal Adult Use of Cannabis) Bill 2023 to the Legal and Social Issues Committee for inquiry and report by 18 March 2025, and deferring its second reading until that report is presented. Passed 23 to 13 in the Victorian Legislative Council on 11 September 2024. How every member voted." url: "https://politics.computer/votes/vic-council/2024-09-11/3" --- [Home](https://politics.computer/) / [Votes](https://politics.computer/votes) / [Victorian Legislative Council](https://politics.computer/votes/vic-council) Parliament of Victoria · Legislative Council · 11 September 2024 # Legal and Social Issues Committee: reference Voting yes supported referring the Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Amendment (Regulation of Personal Adult Use of Cannabis) Bill 2023 to the Legal and Social Issues Committee for inquiry and report by 18 March 2025, and deferring its second reading until that report is presented. Passed **23** yes **13** no The question put That this house: (1) notes that the continued prohibition of cannabis forces thousands of Victorians through the criminal justice system, wastes immense police resources, empowers the illicit market and is at odds with public sentiment, with 80 per cent of Australians believing that the possession of cannabis should not be a criminal offence; (2) requires the Legal and Social Issues Committee to inquire into, consider and report, no later than 18 March 2025, on the Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Amendment (Regulation of Personal Adult Use of Cannabis) Bill 2023, including consideration of the impacts of the Australian Capital Territory’s decriminalisation of the personal use of cannabis; and (3) defers the second reading of this bill until the final report of the committee is presented to the house in accordance with the terms of this resolution. ## How each party voted - Labor All yes 15 yes · 0 no 15 members - Yes [Enver Erdogan](https://politics.computer/mp/enver-erdogan) - Yes [Gayle Tierney](https://politics.computer/mp/gayle-tierney) - Yes [Harriet Shing](https://politics.computer/mp/harriet-shing) - Yes [Ingrid Stitt](https://politics.computer/mp/ingrid-stitt) - Yes [Jacinta Ermacora](https://politics.computer/mp/jacinta-ermacora) - Yes [Jaclyn Symes](https://politics.computer/mp/jaclyn-symes) - Yes [John Berger](https://politics.computer/mp/john-berger) - Yes [Lee Tarlamis](https://politics.computer/mp/lee-tarlamis) - Yes [Lizzie Blandthorn](https://politics.computer/mp/lizzie-blandthorn) - Yes [Michael Galea](https://politics.computer/mp/michael-galea) - Yes [Ryan Batchelor](https://politics.computer/mp/ryan-batchelor) - Yes [Shaun Leane](https://politics.computer/mp/shaun-leane) - Yes [Sheena Watt](https://politics.computer/mp/sheena-watt) - Yes [Sonja Terpstra](https://politics.computer/mp/sonja-terpstra) - Yes [Tom McIntosh](https://politics.computer/mp/tom-mcintosh) - Liberal All no 0 yes · 11 no 11 members - No [Ann-Marie Hermans](https://politics.computer/mp/ann-marie-hermans) - No [Bev McArthur](https://politics.computer/mp/bev-mcarthur) - No [David Davis](https://politics.computer/mp/david-davis) - No [Evan Mulholland](https://politics.computer/mp/evan-mulholland) - No [Georgie Crozier](https://politics.computer/mp/georgie-crozier) - No [Joe McCracken](https://politics.computer/mp/joe-mccracken) - No [Nick McGowan](https://politics.computer/mp/nick-mcgowan) - No [Renee Heath](https://politics.computer/mp/renee-heath) - No [Richard Welch](https://politics.computer/mp/richard-welch) - No [Trung Luu](https://politics.computer/mp/trung-luu) - No [Wendy Lovell](https://politics.computer/mp/wendy-lovell) - Greens All yes 3 yes · 0 no 3 members - Yes [Aiv Puglielli](https://politics.computer/mp/aiv-puglielli) - Yes [Katherine Copsey](https://politics.computer/mp/katherine-copsey) - Yes [Sarah Mansfield](https://politics.computer/mp/sarah-mansfield) - Smaller parties and independents - Yes [David Ettershank](https://politics.computer/mp/david-ettershank) Legalise Cannabis - Yes [Rachel Payne](https://politics.computer/mp/rachel-payne) Legalise Cannabis - No [Gaelle Broad](https://politics.computer/mp/gaelle-broad) Nationals - No [Melina Bath](https://politics.computer/mp/melina-bath) Nationals - Yes [Georgie Purcell](https://politics.computer/mp/georgie-purcell) Animal Justice Party - Yes [David Limbrick](https://politics.computer/mp/david-limbrick) Libertarian Party - Yes [Samantha Ratnam](https://politics.computer/mp/samantha-ratnam) Party not recorded Members who didn't vote (absent, paired or in the chair) aren't listed. A party votes as one when at least three quarters of its members vote together. [Previous Vote 2 that day](https://politics.computer/votes/vic-council/2024-09-11/2) [All Victorian Legislative Council votes](https://politics.computer/votes/vic-council) Source: [Hansard, Parliament of Victoria](https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/parliamentary-activity/hansard/hansard-details/HANSARD-974425065-28110#division-marker-1). The summary is AI-written from the question and the bill's official summary, then checked; the record above is the authority. --- [Politics Computer](https://politics.computer/) A free reference for Australian politics. Seats and members from the parliaments, votes from Hansard, ads and spend from Meta's Ad Library, checked every Sunday, last on 11 Nov 2026\. Meta reports spend as a range for each ad, so every total here is a range too. 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