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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 Australia: Desperate cancer patients pay up to $220 for one day’s worth of black market medicinal cannabis while waiting for legalisation 🌿Australia: Desperate cancer patients pay up to $220 for one day’s worth of black market medicinal cannabis while waiting for legalisation
DESPERATE cancer patients are paying up to $220 for one day’s supply of black market medicinal cannabis while awaiting the “frustratingly slow” process of legalisation.
Health experts say there is enough scientifically proven benefit to warrant the drug’s legalisation in Australia.
But state governments have ordered trials despite more than 1600 research papers already completed around the world.
Scientists say medicinal cannabis eases nausea in chemotherapy patients, assists with pain and muscle spasticity and stimulates appetite in cancer and HIV patients.
Certain cannabis substances have also been found to kill cancer cells in the lab.
“I believe there is heaps of research out there if people take the trouble to read it they will find the research is more than adequate,” said Emeritus Professor Laurence Mather from the University of Sydney.
Medicinal cannabis supplier Langdon Brown, also known as The Don, said he had 150 customers in Queensland taking cannabis...
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