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Legalise Cannabis Victoria

Legalise Cannabis (Vic)'s plan to FOCUp

This platform against the 2026-27 Victoria budget

Only 2 of this party's 10 promises have a price tag worked out. The other 8 have been announced but not priced, so what you see below is that smaller group — not the whole platform.

Published net effect
−$78.5M
Every one of the 2 published costings, added up. Not modelled by FOCUp — this is the costing figure itself.
Government baseline balance
$1,200,000,000
Balance with this platform
$1,121,500,000
The baseline plus every published costing.

What the simulator can load: only the 2 of 2 costed promises tied to a line in this budget. Together they change the balance by −$78.5M, which would leave $1,121,500,000. Tax and savings measures are often not tied to a single line, so this partial figure can be very different from the whole platform above.

Not included in what the simulator loads (8)

  • Evaluate medicinal cannabis to treat veteran and first responder work-related injuries— No published costing (Health)
  • Halt approvals of new AI data centres— No published costing (Jobs, Immigration & Industry Programs)
  • Whole-of-system reform to address family violence— No published costing (Social protection)
  • Retain Infrastructure Victoria— No published costing (General public services)
  • Update the Environment Reference Standard to explicitly cover plastics and microplastics— No published costing (Environmental protection)
  • Free bus travel— No published costing (Transport)
  • Hold a cannabis legalisation plebiscite— No published costing (General public services)
  • Enshrine Victoria Police’s cannabis cautioning program into legislation— No published costing (Public order and safety)
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Recorded policy positions

These are the promises this party has made, and where each one was announced.

“Costed” means someone has worked out the price tag. Parties can ask an independent government office — the Parliamentary Budget Office — to check what a promise would actually cost. When that has happened, the dollar figure is shown here, along with a small number that links to the document it came from at the bottom of the page.

“Not costed” means nobody has put a price on it yet. That is common for promises made early in a campaign. Where that is the case we say so and leave the money column empty. We do not guess a number — a made-up figure would be worse than no figure, because it would look exactly as real as a checked one.

Election promise (10)

  • Evaluate medicinal cannabis to treat veteran and first responder work-related injuries

    Election promiseDirection unclear

    Recorded by the Victorian Parliamentary Budget Office in its 2026 Election Commitment Tracker.

    Budget line
    Health
    Costing
    No published costing

  • Halt approvals of new AI data centres

    Election promiseDirection unclear

    Recorded by the Victorian Parliamentary Budget Office in its 2026 Election Commitment Tracker.

    Budget line
    Jobs, Immigration & Industry Programs
    Costing
    No published costing

  • Whole-of-system reform to address family violence

    Election promiseDirection unclear

    Recorded by the Victorian Parliamentary Budget Office in its 2026 Election Commitment Tracker.

    Budget line
    Social protection
    Costing
    No published costing

  • Retain Infrastructure Victoria

    Election promiseDirection unclear

    Recorded by the Victorian Parliamentary Budget Office in its 2026 Election Commitment Tracker.

    Budget line
    General public services
    Costing
    No published costing

  • Update the Environment Reference Standard to explicitly cover plastics and microplastics

    Election promiseDirection unclear

    Recorded by the Victorian Parliamentary Budget Office in its 2026 Election Commitment Tracker.

    Budget line
    Environmental protection
    Costing
    No published costing

  • Free bus travel

    Election promiseDirection unclear

    Recorded by the Victorian Parliamentary Budget Office in its 2026 Election Commitment Tracker.

    Budget line
    Transport
    Costing
    No published costing

  • Extend the Alexis-Family Violence Response Model

    Election promiseSpends more

    Recorded by the Victorian Parliamentary Budget Office in its 2026 Election Commitment Tracker.

    Budget line
    Public order and safety
    Costing
    $31,100,0002

  • Hold a cannabis legalisation plebiscite

    Election promiseDirection unclear

    Recorded by the Victorian Parliamentary Budget Office in its 2026 Election Commitment Tracker.

    Budget line
    General public services
    Costing
    No published costing

  • Implement the What Can Be Done model

    Election promiseSpends more

    Recorded by the Victorian Parliamentary Budget Office in its 2026 Election Commitment Tracker.

    Budget line
    Health
    Costing
    $47,400,0002

  • Enshrine Victoria Police’s cannabis cautioning program into legislation

    Election promiseDirection unclear

    Recorded by the Victorian Parliamentary Budget Office in its 2026 Election Commitment Tracker.

    Budget line
    Public order and safety
    Costing
    No published costing

Sources

Every costing shown above was read from one of these documents.

  1. 1.Victorian Parliamentary Budget Office, 2026 Election Commitment Tracker https://pbo.vic.gov.au/2026_election_commitment_tracker
  2. 2.Victorian Parliamentary Budget Office — PBO cost, 2026 election costing period https://pbo.vic.gov.au/2026_election_commitment_tracker