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The subscription service is currently unavailable. Please try again later.A Tasmanian mother illegally using medicinal cannabis has ruled out participating in the New South Wales trial of the drug.
The Tasmanian Government is finalising its involvement in the trial and has offered to supply participants from the state.
However, that could prove difficult, with some parents who use the drug to treat their seriously ill children refusing to put them at risk.
Hobart mother Nicole Cowles treats her nine-year-old daughter Alice's life-threatening seizures with cannabis oil, even though it is illegal.
She will not allow her to be part of the trial.
"The risk of being given a placebo, or sugar water more or less, is terrifying especially, when her seizures are so life-threatening and so well controlled now in comparison to how they ever have been," Ms Cowles said.
Premier Will Hodgman had previously nominated Alice as a candidate for the New South Wales trial, but Ms Cowles...
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