Minutes of Drug Advisory Council meeting May 2021 (FOI)

​Request

Please provide the Minutes of the Misuse of Drugs Advisory Council's Medicinal Cannabis Sub-group meetings since its inception in May 2021.

Response

Minutes of the Misuse of Drugs Advisory Council Medicinal Cannabis Sub-committee meetings are attached.

20230328 ACMD Sub committee Medicinal Cannabis meeting_Redacted.pdf

20230614 ACMD Sub committee Medicinal Cannabis meeting_Redacted.pdf​

Redactions have been made to the minutes in consideration of Freedom of Information legislation to protect the privacy of individuals, ensure that policies under development by the Government of Jersey, or others, are not prejudiced, and to reduce the impact on the security of the island. Redactions have been colour coded for ease of reference, as follows:

Blue    Personal Information of the Chair - Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011

Yellow    Personal Information of the Members of the Council and others mentioned within the minutes – Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011

Purple    Formulation and Development of Policies – Article 35 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011

Red    Law Enforcement – Article 42 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 

Articles Applied

Article 25 - Personal information

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018.

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if –

(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018; and

(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.

Article 35 - Formulation and development of policies

Information is qualified exempt information if it relates to the formulation or development of any proposed policy by a public authority.​

Article 42 - Law enforcement

Information is qualified exempt information if its disclosure would, or would be likely to, prejudice –

(a) the prevention, detection or investigation of crime, whether in Jersey or elsewhere;

Public Interest Test

Articles 35 and 42 are qualified exemptions and, as such, Health and Community Services (HCS) has conducted a prejudice test as required by law. 

HCS has assessed whether, in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in supplying the information is outweighed by the prejudice that would likely result by doing so. It is recognised that there is a public interest in transparency. However, having considered the public interest, HCS has concluded that the public interest in disclosing this information is outweighed by the potential prejudice that would likely result.​