Mum overjoyed by medical cannabis green light
A Mernda family is relieved medicinal cannabis will be grown and sold in Victoria within the next two years.
Cassie Batten and Rhett Wallace’s four-year-old son Cooper has severe brain damage, cerebral abscesses, hydrocephalus, epilepsy and cerebral palsy and suffers from daily seizures unless administered with cannabis oil.
Ms Batten said she was overjoyed the state government would legalise access to locally manufactured medicinal cannabis for “exceptional circumstances” as early as 2017.
The Victorian Law Reform Commission’s report on medicinal cannabis, tabled in Parliament last Tuesday, contained 42 recommendations that address eligibility criteria, the role of doctors, the regulation of manufacture and distribution, and which forms of medicinal cannabis should be permitted.
Premier Daniel Andrews announced the state government would fully accept 40 of the commission’s recommendations, and two in principle.
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