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A medical cannabis crop in Australia. Cannabis is a plant used in Australia for recreational, medicinal and industrial purposes. In 2022–23, 41% of Australians over the age of fourteen years had used cannabis in their lifetime and 11.5% had used cannabis in the last 12 months.
Two main questions arise in the law surrounding driving after having ingested cannabis: (1) whether cannabis actually impairs driving ability, and (2) whether the common practice of testing for THC (the main psychoactive substance in cannabis) is a reliable means to measure impairment. On the first question, studies are mixed.
As cannabis legalization spreads across North America, researchers and policymakers are scrambling to solve the issue of road safety. Drunk driving remains a higher risk for accidents, but recent ...
Pearlson adds that public service announcements about “stoned driving” would help, but he stresses the need for more research—especially regarding increasingly popular cannabis concentrates ...
The bill's intent to legalise cannabis differs from cannabis' status in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), with the bill's aim to fully legalise cannabis, including for recreational use. Commencing 31 January 2020, the ACT decriminalised the possession of up to 50g of 'dry' or 150g of 'wet' cannabis, so long as the person is over 18. [8]
Medical marijuana is legal in Ohio, and voters in November approved an initiative to make recreational use legal, but the state lawmakers have yet to implement a system for it.
Legalise Cannabis Australia (LCA), also known as the Legalise Cannabis Party (LCP) and formerly the Help End Marijuana Prohibition (HEMP) Party, is a registered single-issue Australian political party. [2] It has a number of policies that centre around the re-legalisation and regulation of cannabis for personal, medicinal and industrial uses in ...
A Cannabis sativa plant. The Hunter Valley cannabis outbreak was an infestation of Cannabis sativa plants in the Hunter Valley in New South Wales, Australia, in the 1960s. At its peak, the infestation covered about 30 square kilometres (12 sq mi). It took nine years for the Government of New South Wales to eradicate it. [1]