AUSTRALIA Senate Inquiry into Current barriers to patient access to medicinal cannabis in Australia [United in Compassion] I would like to encourage The Hemp Embassy and your networks to consider writing a submission to the Senate Inquiry into barriers to patient access to medicinal cannabis in Australia. This inquiry is [...]
Medical Cannabis Users' Association PRESS RELEASE: Calling for a moratorium on arrests. Cannabis Patient persecution must stop! Medical Cannabis Users Association of Australia (MCUA) President Deb Lynch and members of the advocacy group are up in arms following police raids carried out on 2 of their fellow activists in Queensland [...]
AUSTRALIA Australia launches inquiry into medical cannabis access [Marijuana Business Daily] A separate review of the medical cannabis industry was recently completed, and it included recommendations to improve the framework governing Australia’s medical cannabis sector. Those recommendations – made in a government-commissioned report written by John McMillan, law professor at [...]
AUSTRALIA Spotlight to be placed on barriers to medicinal cannabis in Australia [SBS] Barriers confronting patients trying to access medicinal cannabis in Australia will be scrutinised in a Parliamentary inquiry into how the drug is regulated. The Greens said the medicinal cannabis system is “broken” and in urgent need of [...]
AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND 'Motivated by a genuine compassion': South Australian cannabis supplier spared conviction [The Sydney Morning Herald] An Adelaide woman spared a conviction after she supplied medicinal cannabis to people suffering from chronic pain says her case highlights the need for law reform. Cannabis oil advocate Jenny Hallam [...]