MARIJUANA – THERAPEUTIC USE – NEW SOUTH WALES

Jury out on medical marijuana

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Original article by Luke Malpass
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 7 : 5-Jan-15

Dr John Lawson of the Sydney Children’s Hospital notes that there is growing interest in the use of medical marijuana to treat epileptic children. He has welcomed the New South Wales Government’s recent decision to provide $A9m to finance a trial of medical marijuana, and has emphasised that any such drugs given to children will have no psychoactive properties

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SYDNEY CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL, NEW SOUTH WALES. DEPT OF PREMIER AND CABINET, VICTORIA. DEPT OF PREMIER AND CABINET

Medicinal use of cannabis on agenda

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Original article by Anna Patty
The Sydney Morning Herald – Page: 7 : 17-Nov-14

The New South Wales (NSW) Government is funding a symposium to be staged in Tamworth on 21-22 November 2014, on the legal medicinal use of cannabis for cancer sufferers and terminally ill patients. A potential trial of such an approach has the backing of both NSW Premier Mike Baird, who will open the Tamworth event, and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott. No Australian Medical Association representative will attend the symposium

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AUSTRALIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION LIMITED, NEW SOUTH WALES. DEPT OF PREMIER AND CABINET, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF THE PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET, NATIONAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA

Nats MP a reluctant drug crusader

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Original article by Harriet Alexander
The Sydney Morning Herald – Page: 10 : 22-Sep-14

New South Wales MP Kevin Anderson was persuaded to support the decriminalisation of cannabis for medicinal use. Lou and Lucy Haslem of Tamworth told the National Party MP about their son’s illness. After considering the issue, he promised to take action. Anderson will present a private member’s bill to the state Parliament

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NATIONAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA, NEW SOUTH WALES. MINISTRY OF HEALTH, NEW SOUTH WALES. DEPT OF PREMIER AND CABINET, THE GREENS NSW INCORPORATED