Medicinal cannabis: Australian Mother treating children for epilepsy says access to drug should be expanded
Medicinal cannabis campaigners in Victoria have called on the State Government to open access to the drug to a larger group of people.
The Access to Medicinal Cannabis Bill 2015, passed on Tuesday, means Victoria is the first Australian state to permit medicinal marijuana.
The Government said it would only be available to people in exceptional circumstances, with children suffering from severe epilepsy the first to access the medicine, in early 2017.
One mother who has been campaigning for the medicine to be legalised said the process was too slow and too exclusive.
Cheri O'Connell, of Mia Mia in central Victoria, said medicinal marijuana had helped her son Sean and daughter Tara, who both suffer from forms of epilepsy.
She said her family was dealing with dozens of seizures a day, until both children began taking medicinal cannabis.
"[We've had] three years without a seizure," she said.
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