QLD: How Do Queensland’s New Strata Smoking Laws Affect Vaping and Medicinal Cannabis Use?

This article discusses QLD strata vaping cannabis laws, explaining how Queensland’s new strata smoking laws apply to vaping and why medicinal cannabis use remains unclear.

How will the changes to smoking laws in Queensland body corporate buildings affect vaping and the medicinal use of cannabis?

The new strata legislation does cover vaping, but the medicinal use of cannabis is unclear.

The new strata laws are about ‘smoke’, the definition of which is linked to the definition in the Tobacco and Other Smoking Products Act 1998. Here’s that definition:

smoke means—
1. for a smoking product other than a personal vaporiser or a hookah—smoke, hold or otherwise have control over an ignited smoking product; or


2. for a personal vaporiser—inhale through the vaporiser; or


3. for a hookah—inhale through the hookah.

So, vaping IS covered by the new strata legislation, and the medicinal use of cannabis is unclear, I’m afraid. There are a few other instances of the new strata legislation not covering what we might consider as ‘smoke’: despite submissions from Strata Solve pointing it out, smoke from barbecues, wood-smokers or open fires are not covered by the new strata legislation.

This post appears in Strata News #677.

Chris Irons Strata Solve E: chris@stratasolve.com.au P: 0419 805 898