Senate debates
Monday, 30 November 2015
Motions
Medicinal Cannabis
3:43 pm
Richard Di Natale (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source
I move:
That the Senate—
(a) notes:
(i) the efficacy of medicinal cannabis for managing crippling symptoms where other pain relief and medicines have failed, and
(ii) the urgency and importance of making medicinal cannabis accessible for patients;
(b) applauds the bravery of those families acting to ease the pain of their loved ones despite the anachronistic classification of medicinal cannabis;
(c) affirms the critical need for a framework that makes medicinal cannabis accessible through a doctor, legal, available and affordable; and
(d) urges the Australian Government to heed the voices and deeply moving stories of over a quarter of a million Australians who have called for legal and accessible medicinal cannabis.
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