\u201cIt\u2019s been a decade since cannabis was legalised as a medicine in this country and finally our road laws are going to catch up. Many people will be very relieved at this news today,\u201d said Cate Faehrmann.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cate Faehrmann introduced a bill to provide a medical defence for cannabis on 12 Nov 2021. The bill was the subject of an Upper House inquiry but was voted down in the House 29 votes to 6 on 12 Oct 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s heartening to see that finally the voices of medicinal cannabis patients have been heard, with news that this long-fought for reform will happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201dI\u2019m yet to see the details of the legislation, and will work with all sides of politics to improve it if need be, but the Greens support this reform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201dThe inability of people who are prescribed medicinal cannabis containing THC to drive without the risk of losing their licence, even if they aren\u2019t impaired, is not only grossly unfair but has clogged up our courts system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy bill to introduce a medical defence for cannabis was defeated in 2022. I\u2019m looking forward to voting for this important reform and ending the discrimination that medicinal cannabis patients have faced for too long,\u201d says Cate Faehrmann.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today\u2019s news that long-fought for reform to drug driving laws for medicinal cannabis patients will finally be introduced to the NSW Parliament, will be welcome relief for tens of thousands of people in New South Wales, says Greens MP and drug harm reduction spokesperson Cate Faehrmann. \u201cIt\u2019s been a decade since cannabis was legalised as … Continue reading “Drug driving reform for medicinal cannabis patients a welcome relief: Greens”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39302,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39301\/revisions\/39302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}