In recent years, the Australian Federal Government, QLD Government and other state governments around Australia have finally recognised the legitimate use of medical cannabis and have legalised it for the treatment of medical issues. However, the QLD Government have not yet changed laws regarding the charge of "driving while a relevant drug is present in saliva". This matter is sent to court where a judge is obligated to give a mandatory minimum sentence, and can carry imprisonment, whether or not the defendant uses it legally or not, and thus is categorised in the same category as a criminal offence.

Today this very thing happened, I suffer from CPTSD, anxiety, depression, insomnia, and this drug has helped me where traditional pharmaceutical drugs have failed. I followed all of steps needed to acquire this legally, and I was slapped with a 6 month suspension, along with a $750 fine just for following the law and using this drug for the intended purpose. I am the sole earner for my partner, and our two kids. I pay $450 a week in rent and need a driver's licence to provide for my family. . Now I will be forced onto centrelink, and then within weeks we will be homeless, looking for a rental with no job, no licence, and in the worst rental market in history. 

The current message to the Australian people who need this drug is very clear, whether or not the drug is supplied legally. If they are supplied legally people only have to pay more money for taxes, yet if they are stopped by police ever again they are still treated like a criminal they still must give up their freedoms of driving, careers, and also their families must suffer because of the incompetence of our legislators.

This big error of the law needs to be fixed before more lives are destroyed, and more families are forced into poverty.