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Australia: Medical cannabis is serious. It’s not about giggling teens and getting high

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Submitted by Marijuana News on Fri, 04/24/2015 - 08:00

Queensland has woken up — or at least arched its eyebrow and propped one lid open.

We can only hope that it will continue to emerge into consciousness.

Signing up to be part of NSW’s medical cannabis trial for suffering children and dying adults is a sign it is at least willing to listen to the people.

We should be grateful for small mercies.

But nagging concerns about this whole positive medical movement linger.

It is concerning that NSW Health Minister Jillian Skinner said the trials would not include crude cannabis, but a derivative — presumably in a pill.

This is presumably to head off any chance that the public might envisage children puffing on a plant and getting high.

Cynics might say this also ensures medical companies are not entirely cut out of the “revolution”, a concern raised any time consideration is given to allowing people access their own...

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