Menace to medicine – revisiting cannabis

The medicinal use of cannabis is a complex issue not just in Australia but around the world. In the past year media coverage has exploded in Australia.

This has been stoked largely by a public campaign by Lucy and Lou Haslam, parents of 24-year-old Daniel Haslam, a patient terminal cancer from Tamworth, NSW and the political and media support for their predicament. Now barely a week passes without an emotive anecdotal success story, an outspoken medical practitioner supporting or decrying its use, or governments announcing trials, investigations or priority for the issue.

In November 2014, the inaugural Australian Medicinal Cannabis Symposium was held in Tamworth, NSW. The Symposium brought together medicinal cannabis experts from around the globe to build awareness and inform Australian people, policy makers, health professionals, academics and law enforcement of the evidence, the history that testifies and the opportunities that are apparent for rediscovering and reintroducing cannabis...

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