CWA votes to push for marijuana trials
THE normally conservative Country Women's Association will lobby governments to begin trials in the medicinal use of marijuana.
In a decision that may send ripples of concern through conservative parties, the CWA national executive voted in Darwin to lobby for cannabis to be tested as a treatment for chronic pain.
Incoming CWA president Leslie Young, a member of the Tasmanian branch from where the motion is understood to have originated, said "cannabis is another option for people who are terminally and chronically ill.
"We'd just like them to do the trials and find out."
Ms Young, a trained nurse who runs a vegetable and livestock farm with her husband and 28-year-old son at East Sassafras near Devonport.
[Queensland Nationals president Bruce McIvor said his party was against the use of marijuana in any form for any purpose.]
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