Australia: Desperate family calls for medicinal cannabis amnesty after police come knocking

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Five weeks ago, Bill Shorten visited Cherie and Trevor Dell in their Sydney home to talk about how medicinal cannabis is helping their three-year-old daughter Abbey. 

The very next day, the police came knocking.

Abbey suffers from a rare genetic disorder known as CDKL5, which results in constant violent seizures.

They tried every legal medicine and treatment under the sun but found that nothing worked. Eventually, desperate to relieve Abbey's suffering, they turned to the underground suppliers that provide illegal medicinal cannabis oil to families in need across the country.

Before the cannabis treatments, Abbey suffered dozens of seizures every day, with some of them lasting 45 minutes.

"Now we have possibly one per day and some days are seizure-free," said Mrs Dell. "It has definitely helped."

The transformation was so remarkable that the couple started thinking about how they could use it to help their other five children, all of whom suffer...

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