Provides an overview of international, Commonwealth and State laws around the prohibition of cannabis and the laws around the use of cannabis for medical, food and industrial purposes.    

Provides an overview of Commonwealth and state laws and Regulations around the use of cannabis for medical purposes in Queensland.

Provides an overview of the criminal law and cannabis in Queensland. 

In 1765 Blackstone rrecognised that the defence was founded upon the theory that individuals should not be punished when they are not acting out of free will and that “the law ought to promote the achievement of higher values at the expense of lesser values, and that sometimes the greater good for society will be accomplished by violating the literal language of the criminal law.”

Provides a brief overview of leading international and Australian medical cannabis cases.

 The decision on whether to prosecute medical cannabis cases or not must be based upon the evidence, the law and the Director's Guidelines. The decision to prosecute is a two tiered test: 

• is there sufficient evidence?; and

• does the public interest require a prosecution

If it is not in the interests of the public that a prosecution should be initiated or continued then it should not be pursued. The scarce resources available for prosecution should be used to pursue, cases worthy of prosecution and not wasted pursuing inappropriate cases.​