Australia: A Mother's Promise

One woman's fight to honour her son's legacy has made her an icon of hope for thousands of suffering Australians

She had convinced 235,000 people to support her including doctors, business leaders and a state premier, but the two people Lucy Haslam most needed to convince still weren’t returning her calls, so she booked a plane ticket and headed for Canberra.

There had been a lot of progress in recent months in her push to have medical cannabis made legally available and it felt like the national debate had reached a tipping point. She had been told quietly that a cross-party Senate committee looking at the issue would give rare unanimous support for a change to the law. If passed it would give sick Australians who had run out of other medical options access to cannabis treatment, and with any luck the bill could be brought on for a vote...

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