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communicate information about the availability of medicinal cannabis products; maintaining a prohibition on tetrahydrocannabinols capable of inducing a psychoactive effect on individuals, and allowing CBD products to contain some non-psychoactive cannabinoids that are naturally found in cannabis. The Labour Party expressed support for the bill as a means of decriminalizing medicinal cannabis. While the
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smoking "loose-leaf" cannabis be incorporated into the final bill. During its second reading, the revised Bill incorporated several changes including extending the use of medicinal cannabis to all needing palliative care; require that regulations for a
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support for legalising medicinal cannabis. Only 1% opposed the intents of the bill. The Health
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praised the inclusion of anyone in palliative care under the bill as a compassionate approach that would provide 25,000 people with a defence for using medicinal cannabis. Greens drug reform spokesperson Chloe
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