Showing posts with label NSW. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NSW. Show all posts

Monday, 20 April 2015

NSW Carers.... Cannabis TICS Trial

Six months since the state government created a scheme exempting the terminally ill from laws against possessing cannabis, only a few dozen people have signed up ....
... the (NSW) state government changed regulations to *explicitly* give police the power to decline to prosecute terminally ill patients who had signed up to a government register. Patients and their carers can carry up to 15 grams of cannabis.
But since regulations were changed, *** police have never invoked the provision to not prosecute ****.
And only about 40 people joined the register.