The NSW Government will introduce laws to Parliament to create a more commonsense approach for people using lawfully prescribed medicinal cannabis, while maintaining strong road safety protections.
Minister for Health Ryan Park said, “Medicinal cannabis is allowing many people in our community to go about their daily lives, these reforms work to get a balance right between safety and legal use of medicinal cannabis.”
Under the reforms drivers, including those in the Illawarra, taking prescribed medicinal cannabis containing THC will no longer be automatically penalised under the current drug presence offence framework in certain circumstances.
There are around one million medicinal cannabis users in Australia, with up to a third (over 300,000) estimated in NSW and growing, with the number of cannabis medicines dispensed each month in NSW almost doubling in a 12 month period
