Hello everyone. A bold new campaign has just launched which aims to finally end discrimination against medicinal cannabis patients in Australian drug driving laws.

Tap here to immediately sign the Drive Change petition and help create drug driving laws that are fair, equal, and improve public health.

Via Change.org/DriveChangeMC:

Medicinal cannabis is perfectly legal. But it is the only prescribed medication without a legal defence against positive roadside mouth swab tests for presence, making our current drug driving laws discriminatory against medicinal cannabis patients.

Of the 65,000+ patients across Australia, the average age is 49 years old. The average medicinal cannabis patients in Victoria are women aged 55 years old. These people are our family, our friends, and our co-workers. They are parents who need to pick up the kids after school or get across town to do their jobs. While these discriminatory laws remain in place, they can’t.

Tap here to immediately sign the Drive Change petition.

We can keep our roads safe by relying on scientific evidence, not outdated laws based on misinformation.

We are calling for a legal defence for drivers who test positive for the presence of legally prescribed medicinal cannabis when:

• The driver has a valid doctor’s prescription for a medicine containing THC;
• The offence does not involve dangerous or reckless driving; and
• An officer cannot establish driver impairment.

Click here to immediately sign the petition to create drug driving laws that are fair, equal, and improve public health.

Click here to visit the petition page

Lucy Haslam