Drug-driving laws unfair on the sick

By Greg Barns
Picture: Luke Bowden

EVERY day in South Australia’s courts there is injustice occurring. Drivers using cannabis, approved by their doctor for medicinal purposes,
are finding themselves convicted of drug-driving offences and losing their licence for three months and longer as well as being hit with a fine.
If that same driver was using opioid or other pharmaceutical painkillers they would not be in court.

There is a chance to remedy this patently unfair situation through a Bill being introduced into state parliament this week by Greens MP Tammy Franks…

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This Bill is not the first in Australia. In Victoria, independent MP Fiona Patten, of the Reason Party, has introduced a similar Bill. Premier Daniel
Andrews’ Labor government has said it will support finding a way to stop penalising medicinal cannabis patients.

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