It’s wall-to-wall Aussie pollies and home to the iconic Questacon, but now our capital Canberra is known for another thing – legalising marijuana. The ACT has officially become the first Australian jurisdiction to legalise the possession, use and cultivation of small amounts of cannabis. So what’s allowed? Adults in the ACT will be able to grow two cannabis plants per person, up to a maximum of four plants per household. They will also be able to posses up to 50 grams of dry cannabis or 150 grams of wet cannabis. Getty Images But before you dig out the shovel and get gardening, you could still run into trouble… Growing and possessing cannabis is still a federal offence and the ACT Attorney-General Gordon Ramsay said in the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday morning that the risk of prosecution was “not entirely removed”. However, “in practice” the laws would not apply. “The […]