We rejected an application for medicinal cannabis for a person with a mental health condition, because we could find no research, nor could the treating doctor find any research, that demonstrated that medicinal cannabis would actually be helpful in addressing the mental health condition.

The ACCP informed the Committee that from the work by Jeffreys et al (2009) on the drug use of parents whose children have entered care it is estimated that 70% of those children had parents who were misusing substances, and of those parents, 77% were misusing alcohol, 53% cannabis and 50% amphetamines.180 178 Johns, M, State Coroner, South Australia (2015, April 9) Coroner’s Report on the Inquest into the Death of Chloe Lee Valentine p.143.

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(NB 23.6% of the sample were not sure it this was an issue, 18.7% ranked it as quite important and 21.2% ranked it as not important): M Coombs et al, “Certainty and Uncertainty about End of Life Care Nursing Practices in New Zealand Intensive Care Units: A Mixed Methods Study” (2015) 28 Australian Critical Care 82; R Syme, “Necessity to Palliate Pain and Suffering as a Defence to Medical Homicide”‘ (2009) 12 JLM 439, 442; P Hudson et al, “Legalizing Physician-assisted Suicide and/or Euthanasia: Pragmatic Implications” (2015) 13 Palliative and Supportive Care 1399, 1400. 19 The authors note the existence of new legal regimes that permit medicinal cannabis to be used as pain relief in limited circumstances, including palliative care.

I am not sure that everything is being done for those people medically who experience conditions like nausea and extreme pain—for instance, medical cannabis.

The contribution of social circumstances in perinatal outcomes for Aboriginal women has been recognised by SAHMRI, WCHN and NALHN who have been running the Corka Bubs and Deadly Mums program, a culturally 7 | P a g e OFFICIAL responsive care package to empower women and their partner to address the harmful effects of cannabis and alcohol use and stress in pregnancy.

Cannabis was the most common, but not the only drug referred to.

Franks New South Wales Legislative Council General Purpose Standing Committee No. 4 - Report on the Use of Cannabis fo r Medical Purposes (August 6) --- --- Youth Bills and Acts (October 29) --- --- Letter and Petition from the A n angu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Law and Culture Committee tabled during debate on the A n angu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara L and Rights (Miscellaneous) Amendment Bill 2014 (December 2) --- --- By the Hon J.