2022 Callide by-election

Legalise Cannabis Party on a Roll

Following on from the success of their federal counterparts, who came close to snatching the last Queensland senate seat from Pauline Hanson in the May 2022 Federal Election, the Legalise Cannabis Queensland (LCQ) Party will be hoping for a similar result in the June 2022 Callide by-election.

The party is buoyed by the support from the people of Queensland who understand that changing the law around cannabis is about much more than just smoking it. It is also not just about getting access to cheaper cannabis medicines for those who need but can’t afford it. It’s about the future and providing jobs and “leaving no one behind”.

Not unlike their LNP counterpart, the LCQ Party is interested in moving toward a future that is driven by agriculture rather than a single use commodity that pollutes.

A viable and extensive hemp industry could provide fuel for manufacturing industries and jobs in textiles, food, building materials, paper, fuel, plastics and medicine. None of the crop needs to be wasted.

The plant absorbs disproportionately large amounts of CO2 that will contribute to a decrease in global warming. Hemp uses less water and fertiliser than just about any other crop and cleans the soil while it grows. But the strict licence requirements that exist, due to the laws around cultivating cannabis and hemp, strangle any industry growth. Once cannabis is legal, all these barriers will be gone, opening the way to investment and employment.

The Party’s candidate, Fabrice Jarry, is passionate about changing the laws to provide opportunity for regional growth as well as addressing the lack of access and high cost of cannabis medicine.

As a prescribed medical cannabis patient and advocate, he sees the difficulties faced by people like himself who are disabled by their condition, unable to work and can’t afford cannabis products. He knows from personal experience that cannabis can give pain suffers a better quality of life. He wants to see a subsidy introduced at state level until cannabis is legalised.

A family man with three children, Fabrice worked for a large city council where he quickly became a crew leader. He is a qualified glazier who successfully ran his own handyman service and is a former business owner, now on a disability pension due to a work injury.

Fabrice said, “I joined the Party to make a difference and I strongly believe that a thriving hemp industry can help end many problems in our state. Not only economically and environmentally but in relation to health, policing and human rights”.

“The LCQ maintains that prohibition of cannabis harms good people. Keeping cannabis illegal to use as a medical or social choice, tampers with our human rights in much the same way as the vaccine mandates; and the Party are firm believers in choice when it comes to bodily autonomy”.

“For me the Legalise Cannabis Party represents the changes we need to make to become a safer more productive and self-sufficient society. Legalise Cannabis may be a single policy party, but it is by no means a single issue party”.

Legalise Cannabis Queensland Party respectfully acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land and sea we all share, and pay respect to elders past, present and future, whose ongoing efforts protect and promote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture.