The Australian Centre for Health Law Research and the Crime and Justice Research Centre are co-hosting an upcoming public lecture with guest speaker Professor Ian Freckelton.
- Title: “Cannabis Law Reform in Australia: Panaceas, Promise and Pitfalls”
- Date: Monday 21 November 2016
- When: 5.00pm light refreshments followed by a 5.30pm – 6.30pm lecture
- Venue: Gibson Room, Level 10, Z Block, QUT Gardens Point Campus, 2 George Street, Brisbane.
Abstract: Professor Freckelton will contextualise current movements toward reform of medicinal cannabis in Australia. He will discuss the report of the Victorian Law Reform Commission which prompted the pioneering Access to Medicinal Cannabis Act 2016 (Vic). He will identify problematic issues that have surfaced in relation to comparable reform efforts in the United States and Canada, and the risks of abuse within such reforms. He will identify a conceptual and empirical basis for medicinal cannabis law reform in Australia and review the conditions for which it can plausibly be asserted that cannabis has a sufficient level of therapeutic efficacy. He will review arguments in relation to risks of medicinal cannabis and assert that for law reform to be effective, it should be gradualist and engage the confidence of both medical practitioners and pharmacists, avoiding homegrown schemes and smokable forms of the drug.
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