News/Media – Legalise Cannabis Queensland Party

New University of Toronto, Scarborough, Canada research, which will be published by the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, surveyed chronic cannabis users to see what effect getting high has on their everyday lives.

“There is a stereotype that chronic cannabis users are somehow lazy or unproductive” says Michael Inzlicht, professor, Department of Psychology, who led the study. “We found that’s not the case — their behaviours might change a bit in the moment while they’re high, but our evidence shows they are not lazy or lacking motivation at all”.

Read more … Up in smoke: new study suggests

Legalise Cannabis Victoria MPs threaten to withdraw support for Labor

Legalise Cannabis Victoria MPs have threatened to withdraw their support for the Labor Government on key policy issues after a heavy police presence and arrests at a 4/20 event in Melbourne’s Flagstaff Gardens. David Ettershank and Rachel Payne, whose votes are crucial in helping bills or motions across the line for Jacinta Allan’s ruling party, said the decision to employ a major police presence at the event “crossed a rubicon”.

“The relationship between Legalise Cannabis and the government is reaching an all-time low. We are taking very personally the arrest of our people which is totally at odds with the supposed cannabis-friendly veneer that the government projects”. In the Herald Sun, he added: “Here we are on a Saturday afternoon spending a tonne of money policing a few people enjoying a bit of weed in the park”.

“We are genuinely pissed off at this government. We’ve reached a point where we don’t know how to do business with this government anymore”.
Read more … Heavy police presence at 4/20

420 Commemorated Across the Country with only four going to court in Melbourne!

Burleigh Heads enjoyed perfect Gold Coast weather for their 420 Picnic and a great day was had by all!

Jason Gann announced his candidacy which attracted some very hardcore Wilfred fans to the Burleigh 420 Picnic in the Park. The Party managed to get the good word out to a fair few new connections – the re-education of (some of) the masses is working!

With candidates stepping forward across the Gold Coast and beyond, 2024 will be the year cannabis law reform becomes a fixture on the electoral scene. Don’t forget that you too can help, you can join for free, volunteer your time or donate (every little bit helps).

Meredith, Suzette and Nell on the Gold Coast!

Also present on the Gold Coast were the following candidates (as seen above left and left); Nell Porter for Gaven, Meredith Brisk for Logan, Jeff Knipe for Hervey Bay and the Legalise Cannabis Party Secretary, Suzette Luyken, for Coomera.

The weather was not as kind on the Sunshine Coast (where there was not a lot of sunshine) but several hardcore cannabis law reform activists and a few new faces got together for their 420 Picnic in the Park. The Vice President of the Party, Melody Lindsay a Nambour local (standing in Nicklin), was in attendance alongside recently endorsed candidates including Caboolture local, Rosie Doolan (standing in the seat of Pumicestone).

Out west in Dalby, it bucketed down, and the Dalby 420 Picnic was a complete washout (great for some of the farmers though)! Local Legalise Cannabis Party candidate and long-time Party member, Angela Adams, put on a smile and muttered something about next year and just how much she is looking forward to campaigning far and wide, out west, for the Party in the October State Election campaign.

Bernie speaking on random roadside
drug testing at Newstead.

Bernie Bradley, President and Ian Zunker,
candidate for Bundaberg

In Newstead (Brisbane) the Buds & Bowls 420 commemoration was a roaring success, with a whole raft of networking and education between party members including the President of Legalise Cannabis Queensland, and many representatives from the cannabis industry, who showed a lot of interest in the goals of the Party. Legalise Cannabis Queensland Party candidate for Bundaberg, Ian Zunker was also in attendance.

Be a part of cannabis law reform

Western Australia had a most enjoyable get together in Fremantle with Dr Brian Walker and Captain Cannabis spreading the good word! Employing some of the youngest volunteers to help with merchandising (many hands make light work, and it is fun), badges are very popular and you can get yours at the next Legalise Cannabis Queensland Party event near you!

Flagstaff Gardens in Melbourne saw a couple of hundred people turn out with four of 36 arrestees probably going to end up in court, the others received cautions. The police presence was reliably reported as easily half of what it was last year!

In Nimbin, with the rain tumbling down, Michael Balderstone, President of the Legalise Cannabis Australia Party, invited everyone onto the covered area outside the HEMP Embassy (otherwise known as the footpath), out of the rain, to commemorate 420 at 4.20pm!

Fibromyalgia Patients Report Improved Symptoms Following Cannabis Use

Fibromyalgia (FM) patients frequently use cannabis therapeutically and most say it improves their disease symptoms, according to, “A cross-sectional survey study of cannabis use for fibromyalgia symptom management”, published in April 2024 in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Researchers affiliated with the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota USA (legalised medicinal use in 2015) surveyed 1,336 patients withfibromyalgia.

Half (49.5%) acknowledged using cannabis following their diagnosis. Ninety-nine percent reported using cannabis for pain and 94% reported using it to mitigate stress, anxiety, depression and insomnia. Eighty-two percent said it reduced their FM-related pain and most respondents also rated cannabis as effective in mitigating other disease symptoms.

Authors acknowledged that cannabis use among FM patients is “widespread” and most patients perceive it to have a “favourable impact on pain, stress and sleep disturbances”. Recent observational trial data from Germany and the United Kingdom reports that FM patients typically reduce their use of other prescription medications following their use of cannabis products.

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Legalise Cannabis Queensland Party is bringing 4/20 to a region near you!

We can’t think of a better day to announce our first batch of candidates for the Queensland State Election in October! The twentieth day of April, the traditional day of celebrating all things cannabis, world-wide!

Our picnics are family friendly get-togethers to help spread the word that the Party intends to disrupt the upcoming election with the mantra, “Stir The Pot, Vote 1 Legalise Cannabis Queensland”.

Each and every one of our candidates can tell that people are fed up with the same revolving door politics. Legalise Cannabis Queensland Party is here to offer some common sense policies and to speak for the people on cannabis and driving, workplace laws, a home grow amnesty and many other related issues like employment, youth crime, the environment etc etc.

If you are interested in finding out more, including about the hemp industry, come on down to:
Burleigh Heads – Justins Park, 1841 Gold Coast Hwy. 1-5pm, Saturday 20 April
https://www.facebook.com/events/1131842594683677

Caboolture – Central Lakes Park, Joyner St, Caboolture. 1-5pm, Saturday 20 April
https://www.facebook.com/events/964443194681379/

Dalby – Thomas Jack Park, Drayton St, Dalby. 2-5pm, Saturday 20 April
https://www.facebook.com/events/1269378140685470

The members of Legalise Cannabis Queensland Party Management Committee are pleased to endorse the announced candidates and look forward to announcing another round of candidates in the not too distant future.

Nimbin MardiGrass – Still a Protestival!

For over 30 years the small New South Wales town of Nimbin has played host to the annual MardiGrass, gazetted this year for the weekend of 3 to 5 May, 2024. Highlights will include Drs Jeffrey Hergenrather and David Bearman from California USA, talking about cannabis use and daily life. The Hemp fashion parade is back, along with the Cabaret, street drummers, the Hemp symposium, the Master gardener’s forum, Hemp Olympix, Kombi Konvoy, Music awards and Poet’s Breakfast as well an assortment of talks and stalls offering information on legalising cannabis. All five Legalise Cannabis MPs will be in attendance along with a few candidates who’ll be standing in the Queensland State Election (26 October) for the Legalise Cannabis Queensland Party. For more information checkout the MardiGrass website.

Cannabis Therapy Associated With Quality Of Life Improvements In Chronically Ill Patients

Chronically ill patients who use authorised medical cannabis products report improvements in their quality of life. German investigators assessed patient-reported outcomes in a nationwide cohort of 1,582 patients authorised to use cannabis by their physicians. Plant cannabis and cannabinoid treatments were legalised by prescription use in Germany in 2017; however, cannabis products are typically only authorised when patients are unresponsive to traditional therapies. Patients suffered from chronic pain, depression, sleep disturbances and other symptoms. Eighty-four percent of those surveyed reported quality of life improvements following their use of cannabis. “Cannabis therapy [may] improve the quality of life of chronically ill patients, regardless of the underlying disease” the study’s authors concluded. The findings are consistent with those of observational studies from Australia and the United Kingdom concluding that cannabis use improves chronically ill patients’ health-related quality of life.

‘About time’: NSW launches inquiry into legalising cannabis

Australia’s biggest state will launch a probe into laws surrounding the prohibition of cannabis, with one MP claiming the legalisation of weed could save the state billions of dollars.

An upper house inquiry would be the first of its kind to explore the social and economic impact of prohibiting cannabis, and the impact on young people, the Aboriginal, LGBTIQA+, regional, multicultural and lower socio-economic communities. The review will also consider alternative approaches to current laws, which only allows cannabis to be legally used with a medicinal prescription. Legalise Cannabis MP Jeremy Buckingham said the inquiry would look into the “true socio-economic cost and the opportunities of cannabis legalisation”.

Mr Buckingham, who will chair the inquiry, said NSW’s illegal cannabis market was being used as “rocket fuel” for burgeoning organised crime group, making the argument that legalising the drug would stop revenue. “The inquiry will hear from experts in cannabis law reform, health, crime, economists and will look at jurisdictions like the ACT, USA, and Germany who have moved to a legalisation regime” he said. “Cannabis prohibition disproportionately impacts and criminalises regional, working class, LGBT and Aboriginal communities – it’s time to see why”.

On Wednesday night, the motion was passed in parliament on with support from the government and the Greens. While the Opposition opposed the inquiry, Liberal MP Scott Farlow acknowledged they didn’t have the numbers. While NSW Treasurer and upper house MP Daniel Mookhey said the government welcomed the “opportunity to hear from experts”, he said further policy considerations on cannabis would be examined at the drug summit slated for later this year.

Uniting NSW and ACT’s general manager of advocacy and external relations Emma Maiden welcomed the inquiry. “Any opportunity to examine and change our unfair drug laws in NSW is always welcome as is any positive change to the way we approach drug use and dependency” she said. “We know that the system is unevenly applied, unfair, perpetuates stigma and increases harm. Further changes must be explored and adopted. A Drug Summit at NSW parliament this year will be a critical part of this reform journey. This will be an important way of building multi-party support for reform in the NSW parliament and in the community”.

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Legalise Cannabis is on a roll

(from Legalise Cannabis Party)

The Legalise Cannabis Queensland Party (LCQ) was buoyed by the fantastic result in the Ipswich West By-election held last weekend. Latest figures from the Electoral Commission of Queensland shows LCQ candidate Melody Lindsay currently holding 14.53% of the primary vote.

“An amazing result”, according to Party Secretary Suzette Luyken, who said the Party is planning a massive campaign in October, looking at putting candidates in as many as 40 seats across the state.

“The people are sick of being ignored on this issue”, she said. “As we saw at polling, the people are angry. The patients are angry at having to choose between taking their prescribed medicine and being able to drive, and at the high cost of prescription cannabis products. So too our tradies and professionals, who enjoy cannabis socially and could face losing their licence and their livelihood because they smoked a couple of joints on Saturday night and tested positive on Monday”.

“We aim to channel that anger and frustration into votes and the Party executive is planning to be a significant and disruptive influence at the State Election” warns Ms Luyken. “Particularly after the brush-off we were given in the response to our 12,000 signature petition asking for medical users to be exempt from RDT, as they are in Tasmania”.

“The Party was formed to give consumers and advocates a voice”, according to Ms Lindsay, “And it seems they are speaking from the ballot box if the weekend results are anything to go by”.

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LCQ Stirring the Pot Electorally

Legalise Cannabis Queensland Really Stirred the Pot in Weekend Elections!The Party had candidates running in three separate races, Lord Mayor of Brisbane, alongside Inala and Ipswich-West By-elections, so it was a very busy past two weeks for all the Committee Members and their highly valued volunteers.

With pre-polling well and truly underway, the Electoral Commission Queensland (ECQ) initially did not approve of the Party how-to-vote cards! With a font size adjustment (or two) and a bit of back-and-forth with the ECQ, the issue was solved.Reportedly over-worked, having to deal with three different election types taking place on one day seemed to overwhelm some of the ECQ’s booth workers too. On polling day, there were reports that some polling booths ran out of ballot papers, and those that could, had to be restocked during actual election proceedings!

Throw in visits by the State Premier, leader of the State Opposition and Barnaby Joyce, it was a circus in Ipswich-West in particular. At Inala, the former Premier paid a visit on polling day and in Brisbane City, the flow of voters at Town Hall was non-stop, being the largest local government in Australia (let alone Queensland).

As at 4.20 pm, Sunday, 17 March 2024 the unofficial preliminary count is as follows;

Clive Brazier, Lord Mayor Brisbane = 20,941 votes (3.3%)

Nigel Quinlan, Inala By-election = 985 votes (3.77%)

Melody Lindsay, Ipswich-West By-election = 4,097 votes (14.52%)

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Polling Day – 16 March!

The Legalise Cannabis Party candidates got off to an early morning start (5am kickoff for garnering prominent sites for corflutes) and things have been pretty fast and furious since then! The Queensland State Premier has been doing the rounds, followed by the usual media circus, so watch out for sightings of the Party candidates and our wonderful volunteers on ‘mainscream’ media (never the focus but certainly attracting a lot of attention)!

Legalising cannabis has been a topic that is starting to really gain the attention of the public at large whom are sadly still very ignorant about how discriminatory the current laws are, about how efficacious cannabis is for their health and how the hemp industry alone would be worth millions to the economy, not to mention jobs, safe and sustainable housing and saving the environment!

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Roadside drug testing highlighted by false positive and loss of licence

Headline news across the ABC, a scenario many cannabis users are very familiar with.

Roadside instant drug testing is under scrutiny after a South Australian driver falsely tested positive to having methamphetamine in his system, resulting in a loss of licence. When Victoria introduced roadside drug testing in December 2004, the step was hailed as a “world first” and other states soon followed suit. Swinburne University psychopharmacologist and research fellow Thomas Arkell said states differed in the details of their random drug testing regimes, it was common practice to do more than one spot test. The case involving the South Australian driver is not the first time the reliability of the tests has been called into question. A 2019 study published in the journal Drug Testing and Analysis found that both the Securetec DrugWipe and the Draeger DrugTest 5000 sometimes delivered incorrect results.What happens if you test positive?

The rules vary for each state and territory. Drivers in New South Wales who test positive to an initial mobile drug test will be directed to provide a saliva sample, which if it returns positive, will result in a 24-hour loss of licence. In Victoria and Queensland, drivers who return a positive result to an initial test will be required to take a second test which, if positive, will be sent to a laboratory for further analysis. Western Australia’s Road Safety Commission said drivers found with cannabis, ecstasy or methamphetamine in their oral fluid sample can be charged with drug driving. ACT Policing said drivers can only be charged with a drug driving offence if they test positive on a saliva test analysed in a laboratory. However, in South Australia officers can issue an immediate loss of licence to a driver “if they commit a drug driving offence” by testing positive to a roadside drug test following laws introduced into that state in February last year, according to police.

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Election Update!

One week down and one week to go, with polling day on Saturday, 16 March, in Brisbane City, Inala and Ipswich-West. Clive, Nigel and Melody are still on the lookout for Volunteers, so if you can help, please do not hesitate to contact the Party. The candidates are all proving to be a real breath of fresh air on the political scene, with the Party name on many lips, even being mentioned in the Queensland Parliament by the Leader of the Opposition!

Constituents around Ipswich-West (in particular) are proving themselves to be most artistic (see below) and honest (no stolen corflutes). Finding shade in and around Town Hall is proving to be difficult for Clive (and his broken leg), but he will not be deterred from handing out flyers and how-to-vote cards to all-comers. Melody’s Party T’shirt has proven a hit, with the online shop selling out of many sizes. Meanwhile, Inala was privy to an impromptu dance performance by Nigel!

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Limited evidence that cannabis ‘hangover’ blunts performance

The first systematic review examining the phenomenon of a ‘next day’ hangover caused by cannabis has found scant evidence impairment exists hours after consumption. The research, to be published in an upcoming issue of Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, is available online ahead of print. While cannabis has been known to impair cognition and safety-sensitive task performance immediately after use, the question of impairment many hours or days after use has been unclear.

The researchers, from the Lambert Initiative for Cannabinoid Therapeutics at the University of Sydney, concluded that some lower quality studies reported ‘next day’ effects of THC on cognitive function and safety-sensitive tasks. However, most studies, including some of higher quality, found no such effect. Overall, it appears that there is limited scientific evidence to support the assertion that cannabis use impairs ‘next day’ performance. Further studies involving improved methodologies are required to better address this issue.

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Legalise Cannabis Queensland on River 94.9 Radio!

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Stirring the Pot in Queensland with LCQ Party

With a candidate in the Lord Mayoral Race in Brisbane City, long-time, hard-working member Clive Brazier, a state by-election brought on by the retirement of the former Labor Premier, in Inala and another by-election in the Labor seat of Ipswich-West (both in south-east Queensland), it is all hands on deck for Legalise Cannabis Queensland Party.

Clive made the Channel 10 news with a recommendation from the Greens to put him second, and Clive telling the viewing public to legalise it! In the safe Labor seat of Inala, Nigel Quinlan is up against it with eight candidates in the race but he has experience, having stood for Legalise Cannabis Queensland Party in the 2020 election, in the same seat. However, he is extra busy, electioneering for both he and Clive, as Clive unfortunately broke his leg and spent a couple of days in hospital! Clive is however, the real deal, and is still getting out and about across Brisbane, soldiering on!

The small number of candidates for Ipswich West state by-election, makes it a much closer race, and drawing number one spot on the ballot is a huge bonus. Legalise Cannabis Queensland Party’s candidate, Melody Lindsay is in with a great chance of garnering over 4% of the first preference vote. The Party have a billboard situated in Ipswich running for the week 4-10 March with rotating Party messages from, “A better quality of life for all Queenslanders” through to “Stir the pot, Vote 1”. With an upcoming ad on local radio, telling it as it is, Melody is off to a flying start, with pre-polling across the electorate in full swing.

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The Race is on for Lord Mayor of Brisbane!

The battle for the biggest local government in Australia has begun and for the first time the Greens are a close contender for Brisbane Lord Mayor. In an interesting turn, the Greens say that legal medical cannabis patient Clive Brazier, Legalise Cannabis Queensland Party candidate, should be voted second preference for Lord Mayor! (video) 4 March 2024

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Legalise Cannabis Billboard in Ipswich!

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80% of Australians believe possession of cannabis should not be a criminal offence!

Public views of cannabis have continued to change since 2013. The 2019 survey marked the first time that more people supported the legalisation of cannabis than opposed it. This continued in 2022–2023, with support for legalisation of cannabis increasing to 45% and the proportion of people who believed that possession of cannabis should not be a criminal offence reached an all-time high of 80%. Additionally, 2022–2023 was the first year the proportion of people supporting legalisation was higher than the proportion of people supporting increased penalties for the sale or supply of cannabis (39%).

In 2022–‍2023, 11.5% of people in Australia had used cannabis in the previous 12 months, equating to around 2.5 million people. This was similar to 2019, when 11.6% of people had done so, but is still lower than the proportion doing so in 2001 (12.9%). This report refers to illegal use of cannabis in Australia, excluding prescribed medical cannabis. People who had only used cannabis for medical purposes and had only obtained their cannabis with a prescription, are not included in ‘cannabis use in the last 12 months’ statistics.

However, lifetime use of cannabis includes everyone who has used cannabis at least once in their lifetime, and as a result may include people who have only used prescribed cannabis for medical purposes. In 2022–‍2023 use of prescribed medical cannabis was relatively low and was not responsible for the increases in lifetime use of medical cannabis, however trends should be interpreted with caution. Use of cannabis in regions where possession and use of cannabis have been decriminalised is included in both lifetime use and use in the last 12 months.National Drug Strategy Household Survey 2022–2023: Cannabis in the NDSHS

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Reply to the Courier Mail

Cannabis, a word in its defence

Dear Editor,I am writing in reference to your article ‘Doctors fearful as rising psychosis cases linked to medical cannabis’, published on Sunday, 18th February 2024.These kinds of articles make it hard for the public to know who to trust when it comes to the complementary field of herbal medicine and the nascent field of cannabis medicine.On one hand we have untrained (in most cases) ‘Cannabis Clinic’ doctors authoring scripts for products containing levels of THC that would put a seasoned user on their backside. They are throwing these at patients with common mental health disorders such as depression, anxiety, insomnia and PTSD.

On the other hand we have a psychiatrist (or two) ringing alarm bells saying: “A shocking number of patients who have never had a mental health problem in their lives are turning up to hospitals with psychosis after being prescribed medical cannabis… And half of those patients are at risk of ending up with serious, lifelong conditions like schizophrenia”.Just exactly how many is a shocking number? Later news stories quoted it as one, and the psychiatrist as one-in-ten (1:10) patients. Many of those new to cannabis could well experience psychological effects that can be a little scary. These can be acute in the uninitiated, but disappear, i.e. are only temporary, after a good night’s sleep. However, when the uneducated in use of cannabis as a medicine take themselves to hospital, they suddenly become a cannabis psychosis statistic.

But here is the deal. Psychiatric conditions have no medical diagnosis. There’s nothing to verify they exist. There is no way to test for them or differentiate between them and some other cause. All diagnoses therefore come from the opinion of each specific doctor, who may or may not have a pre-disposition to negative views on cannabis, creating a medical bias.When admitted to a psychiatric facility with suspected psychosis patients are questioned and inevitably asked: “Do you use Cannabis?” Once you say yes, they stop questioning you and you are pigeon-holed as another case of cannabis induced psychosis – even though there are usually other contributing and causative factors the patient has not disclosed, because no further questions were asked.

We see this in general medicine as well. The current batch of medical professionals in the public sector in particular, hear the word ‘cannabis’ and that’s it, you’ve got a diagnosed ‘substance abuse disorder’, ‘cannabis hyperemesis’ or ‘cannabis induced psychosis’ and they stop looking.That’s how so many actual disorders and health issues get overlooked!

Who is telling the truth here? Who can we trust on this issue?In many cases patients have a better knowledge and understanding of cannabis than their prescribing doctor who is untrained in cannabis therapeutics, just rubber stamping the patient’s choice.

High THC flower with no CBD is unbalanced, and a large part of the problem with corporate cannabis. CBD is good for treating many minor mental health conditions, and THC in combination works for many others, but with such poor understanding of the plant, by clinic doctors who are simply employed as the marketing arm of vertically integrated businesses, we will continue to see problems with “psychosis”, real or imagined.

for further information, Cannabis Facts and Cannabis Facts In Depth.

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Semi-naturalistic open-label study examining the effect of prescribed medical cannabis use on simulated driving performance

08 February 2024. Centre for Mental Health and Brain Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn; Institute for Breathing and Sleep (IBAS), Austin Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Patients display few changes in driving performance following use of medical cannabis products

Australian researchers assessed simulated driving performance in a cohort of 40 patients authorised to consume cannabis (under Australian law, physicians may authorise cannabis products to patients unresponsive to conventional prescription treatments). Participants completed a baseline driving assessment prior to participation in the study. On the day of the study, patients consumed their typical dose of medical cannabis (cannabis-based extracts or flowers) at the testing site prior to engaging in a battery of driving simulator tests. Researchers identified no significant changes from patients’ baseline driving performance that would indicate psychomotor impairment.

While oil users tended to have higher SDLP [standard deviation in lateral positioning] values, this was stable over time and there was no evidence of impairment for either administration route. Furthermore, lack of changes in speed variability suggests a modest but sustained stabilisation of vehicle control … Study’s authors concluded, “Overall, this semi-naturalistic study suggests that medical cannabis, used as prescribed, has a negligible impact on simulated driving performance”, consistent with several others determining daily cannabis consumers and patients especially, exhibit tolerance to many of cannabis’ psychomotor-influencing effects.

Our candidate in the race for Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Clive BrazierInala and Ipswich-West By-elections, our candidates, Nigel Quinlan and Melody Lindsaytop

Chance to snare a seat in Queensland (video) The Project, 24 May 2022

Record Support for Legalise Cannabis (video) Channel 9 News, 2022

Australian Government response to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee report: Inquiry into Current barriers to patient access to medicinal cannabis in Australia

Senate Community Affairs References Committee: Inquiry into Current barriers to patient access to medicinal cannabis in Australia (2020).

Recommendation 20: The committee recommends that the Australian Government, through COAG, encourage a review of state and territory criminal legislation in relation to:

amnesties for the possession and/or cultivation of cannabis for genuine self‑medication purposes; and
current drug driving laws and their implications for patients with legal medicinal cannabis prescriptions

Response: Noted. On 29 May 2020 the Prime Minister announced replacement of COAG by the National Federation Reform Council, with decision-making by the National Cabinet. The Government does not support the provisions of amnesties for possession and/or cultivation of cannabis through illegal sources, as there are straightforward legal means by which to obtain medicinal cannabis products on the prescription of medical doctor. Drug driving laws are legislated by the states and territories, although during 2020 the Advisory Council for the Medical Use of Cannabis is reviewing the implications for driving for patients prescribed medicinal cannabis.

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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.