TAKE A STAND FOR PATIENTS RIGHTS
PLEASE COME TO OUR MEDICAL CANNABIS LAW REFORM RALLY AND MARCH
Everyone is welcome to come along to give their support to patients and carers who are suffering and being adversely affected by the criminal laws and the current medical cannabis health laws.
How you Can Help
* Invite Everyone: Please invite all your friends, family, work colleagues via phone, email, and social media such as Facebook
and Twitter.
* MCAG Facebook Event
Register to come to the event and Share our Facebook event post to friends and family
and anyone interested in the cannabis issue. Below is the link to our facebook event.
* Rally and March Poster
Share and pin up the Rally poster on your
local community notice boards and distribute in your local neighbourhood. You can download the poster here.
* Make a Donation to MCAG
You can also help by giving a small donation to help go towards the costs of promoting the Rally on Facebook and Twitter and in the media. Please visit our website for details of the MCAG's Pay Pal account and Westpac Bank account. Any remaining monies will go towards future campaigns.
Donate Here: Pay Pal and Bank Details
* Help on the Day
We still need some more marshalls for the March. If you would like to help please give us a call on 0418 521 296.
* Please come to the Rally and bring along a friend or family member.
Important: About the Rally and March
This is a peaceful and respectful Rally and March with the focus on the patients and carers and the adverse impact of the
criminal drug laws on our health and well being, family, other relationships, employment, education, housing, driving, travel etc, and the difficulties that patients
are having trying to access the TGA manufactured products because of bureaucratic interference and excessive red tape and discriminatory public hospital policies.
SOFT Banners and Placards
Please only bring respectful placards and banners with your message focused on patients, carers, cannabis as medicine and the criminal laws and law reform issues.
Non Commercial and Non Political
Please do not bring posters that criticise, defame, target or promote any commerical entity or individual politican or political party.
OUR ELECTION MESSAGE
We want cannabis to be an election issue and with the focus on the patients and carers.
We want to raise the awareness of the issues that are causing harm and detriment to patients and carers.
We want to send a clear message to all politicians and candidates that we want bi partisan support when need and for the incoming Government and new Queensland Parliament to treat cannabis that is grown, possessed or supplied for medical purposes as a Health Issue and NOT as a criminal issue.
We want the incoming Government to undertake the following as a matter of urgency and in an expeditious manner:
** STOP the raids, arrests and prosecution of all patients and carers who are growing, producing, or possessing their own cannabis.
**STOP the arrests of carers and parents and the intervention of child services against patients supplying cannabis to their children.
** Removal of all criminal sanctions and penalties for cannabis from under the Drugs Misuse Act, when the cannabis is cultivated, produced, possessed or supplied for medical purposes.
** Introduce legislation that provides for a patient register and provisions that give full legal protection for patients to grow their
own cannabis and make their own oils, or
for a patient who can't grow for themselves provisions for the patient to designate a
carer.
** Introduce legislation that provides full
legal protection for patients and carers who are obtaining their cannabis from the black market.
** Allow access to testing labs so patients
can have their own cannabis and oils tested for a small fee.
** Introduce legislation that provides for Queensland registered not profit incorporated associations or patient co-operatives to be granted authorisations or approvals to cultivate and produce cannabis and cannabis products to minimum state health and safety standards as an alternative and more accessible and affordable supply
as opposed to the Federal Government's
expensive and hard to access TGA manufactured cannabis products.
** Change the Epdiolex/CBD only policy at
the Lady Cilento Children's Hospital and
other public hospitals and ensure that
children can access THC products, and
adults can access cannabis, THC and CBD products.
** Ensure that all public hospitals in Queensland have adequate funding to subsidise unregistered cannabis products through the individual patient approval scheme.
** Amendment of the current medical cannabis legislation to remove the
discriminatory and bureacratic barriers that are restricting and delaying patient access to the TGA imported cannabis products and to the locally manufactured TGA products when they become available.
** We want patient advocates to be
appointed to a Government advisory panel.
