Australian doctor backs cannabis trials
The NSW Government has already started the hunt for sites to grow the herb in NSW to support a pharmaceutical supply if clinical trials are successful.
MEDICAL cannabis detractors need to remember the value of the poppy plant to modern medicine.
Toowoomba doctor Jeanne-Marie van der Westhuizen has spent more than 25 years of her professional life working in emergency medicine and drug addiction fields around the world.
She has added her voice in calling for a measured approach to introducing medical cannabis trials in Australia which would bring it in line with other developed nations in which components of the cannabis plant have been used to aid the sick.
She said the medicinal properties of the cannabis plant were similar to that of the poppy which produced both heroin and morphine, depending on the extraction process.
"It (cannabis) is a lot less dangerous than heroin (and) it's the way...
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