Pubdate: Thu, 19 Jun 2014
Source: Herald Sun (Australia)
Copyright: 2014 Herald and Weekly Times
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PUSH FOR MEDICINAL CANNABIS

PROPONENTS of medicinal cannabis will today ask federal MPs to allow 
sick people legal access to the drug.

Drug expert Alex Wodak and Lucy Halam - who is forced to illegally 
source marijuana for her terminally ill son, Dan - will meet MPs of 
all political persuasions in a push for the right for doctors to be 
able to prescribe marijuana.

Hosted by a Greens, Liberal and Labor MP, the Parliamentary Group on 
Drug Policy and Law Reform hopes to take evidence to Health Minister 
Peter Dutton to argue for easier access for the sick.

Greens senator Richard DiNatale said: "This is one of those areas 
where public opinion is well ahead of where politicians are."

Fellow co-convener, Liberal MP Sharman Stone, said people continually 
raised the issue with her.
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