Peter, Having spent a large portion of my previous employment attempting to reduce the amount of those in the populace from inflicting the effect of drug consumption on the community, I have difficulty in allowing any relaxation of Cannabis regulations - I have first hand knowledge of how many users end up as Schizophrenia cases - this may be able to be reduced in clinical applications BUT, to my knowledge there is no empirical evidence that general consumption of cannabis at large is safe, not only to the user but to the general population in vicinity of users.
I am in favour of the use of cannabis oil only under strict medical guidelines, preferably in hospitals or facilities where it can't be abused and the patient is under the control of medical professionals, similarly to all other opioids, otherwise patients in Palliative care.

Possum - the medical mariajuana that is used is not hallucinatory - that part is removed during the process.  It is for treatment of many, many inflictions.

As for the schitzophrenia - you would probably find that these people have a problem to start with, and would most likely drink alcohol at the same time - have seen this many times.  There was a guy who lived in a small town, who smoked daily, he was given not long to live, if he didn't take his prescribed medications - he moved to an area where he could access Gunja, and lived for about 25 years till he was well in his 70's, independently and happy and well.

You are also talking in the past - the current information is that the byproducts of mariajuana or weed or cannabis, call it what you will, is highly effective in cases of Parkinsons, Epilepsy, some cancers - pain, sleeplessness, and much more.

Read some information coming out of the Hemp Embassy or Hemp Party - you will be surprised how far it has come.

 

Sorry guys - I'm only going on information from Monash, and experience as a Drug Officer for over 12 years - yes there are some fantastic results from medical marijuana - but I reiterate under medical conditions in clinics and hospitals - letting it loose in the community could be a recipe for disaster IMHO, it would be a precursor to every dope fiend getting a prescription from "friendly" doctor to hide the use of "Wacky-Backy" .
It is now legal to use in clinical situations and palliative care and that's how it should stay - Spend a couple of nights in a cop car in western suburbs of all Capital Cities - and find out how safe is marijuana - the Nimbin hemp purveyors don't give a sh*t about prolonged use and consequential use of meth amphetamines, so I would be loath to take any recommendation/advice from them. Sorry Brickies my experience is that it is entry to all other drugs.

www.businessinsider.com.au/medical-marijuana-is-now-legal-in-australia-2016-2

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Sorry guys - I'm only going on information from Monash, and experience as a Drug Officer for over 12 years - yes there are some fantastic results from medical marijuana - but I reiterate under medical conditions in clinics and hospitals - letting it loose in the community could be a recipe for disaster IMHO, it would be a precursor to every dope fiend getting a prescription from "friendly" doctor to hide the use of "Wacky-Backy" .
It is now legal to use in clinical situations and palliative care and that's how it should stay - Spend a couple of nights in a cop car in western suburbs of all Capital Cities - and find out how safe is marijuana - the Nimbin hemp purveyors don't give a sh*t about prolonged use and consequential use of meth amphetamines, so I would be loath to take any recommendation/advice from them. Sorry Brickies my experience is that it is entry to all other drugs.

www.businessinsider.com.au/medical-marijuana-is-now-legal-in-australia-2016-2

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 Possum - what would be prescribed by a doctor would be an oil, or tincture, which has the halucogens remove; - if it came that the mariajuana - bud - that is smoked to get high, it would be available in gelcaps, as in America, - possibly 1gram per capsule, and 7 capsules in a prescription.  This is using the bud product as a medication.  Not going to get too much buzz off 7 grams I wouldn't think.

 

Possum, what is a "drug officer" and what were you doing in police cars in Western Sydney? Is this another facet of your law enforcement background? Some forum members might mistakenly think you were once in the NSW Police.

 

 

 

-- Edited by DMaxer on Sunday 9th of July 2017 10:30:36 AM

FYI: Cannabis has a plethora of components to its makeup; however, the components of interest in cannabis are THC and CBD. The cannabis usually referred to as Mary Jane, grass, and weed has a very high THC content and a very low CBD content. THC is the ingredient that causes the halucinatory or getting high effect.

Medicinal cannabis has a very low THC component and a very high CBD content, CBD is the component that 'may' help with pain, seizures and so on.

The THC content in medicinal cannabis is so low that if you were to smoke or ingest a truckload of the stuff in one sitting you still would not get high, it is impossible to get high on medicinal cannabis.

Unfortunately, our government and those who are against legalising medicinal cannabis seem intent on ignoring these 'facts' and want ridiculous measures put in place in pursuance of their personal agendas.

Now, if someone has a real and intelligent gripe with mind altering drugs, why not apply that same beligerence to beer, wines and spirits. When you consider more people are killed or injured as a result of excess alcohol consumption than THC ingestion, there doesn't seem a lot of intelligence applied to their argument.

Hemp oil, a derivative of the cannabis plant and also the oil used for medicinal purposes is and has been legal to sell in Australia since forever, I recently bought some on ebay to try, unfortunately, I don't think the CBD content was high enough for any effect. This is the difficulty in buying the stuff, none of the suppliers list the amount of CBD in their product, rather they use 'rich in CBD' rhetoric, which could and does mean nothing.

Hemp oil is used in cosmetics and a number of other everyday products we all use every day. Sellers are required, by law, to include the warning 'not to be ingested' with their product - ridiculous! You cannot get high on it.

Incidentally, whilst medicinal cannabis is now legal, it can only be prescribed by a specialist Doctor, GPs cannot prescribe it. In SA, not one specialist has applied for licence to prescribe it. I would assume SA is not not alone.

With all this nonsense surrounding medicinal cannabis and the difficulty in obtaining it guess where people turn - anywhere they can get it, medicinal or otherwise. These ridiculous constraints cause everyday Australians who suffer from chronic pain to shoot themselves in the foot by buying illicit cannabis or cannabis they have no idea of its makeup.

Big brother is alive and well and making sure the chronically ill will continue to suffer for as long as our govt and the anti cannabis brigade decide.