2nd of May 2024, 10:55amFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE State MPs, from one of Australia’s fastest growing political parties Legalise Cannabis, are heading north to Nimbin for MardiGrass (Friday, May 3 to Sunday, May 5), the national law reform rally and celebration of all things cannabis. Victorian…
MPs and advocates for the legalisation of cannabis will join the international 420 cannabis celebrations on Saturday, April 20, gathering in Flagstaff Gardens from 2pm. Following heavy handed policing at last year’s event, Legalise Cannabis Victoria MP David Ettershank is appealing to Victoria Police to use…
29 February 2024, 3:19pm FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Legalise Cannabis Victoria welcomes the news that 80% of Australians believe the possession of cannabis should not be a criminal offence. The latest figures published today in the 2022-2023 National Drug Strategy Household Survey send a clear message that Australians…
Today in the Legislative Council, a motion requiring the Government to release the report of former police commissioner Ken Lay into a second medically supervised injecting room in the CBD was overwhelmingly passed.
20th of February 2024, 5:59FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE This Medicinal Cannabis Awareness week marks the seventh anniversary of cannabis becoming a legal medication – a reform that brought relief to many suffering Victorians. Seven years on and patients still endure systemic discrimination. For too long patients have…
8th of February 2024, 10:03 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE In an online article published today, Thursday 8th February, Nine News has suggested that the two Legalise Cannabis MPs and four Liberals in the Victorian Upper House “flew to Phuket to investigate after Thailand relaxed its…
29 November 2023, 5:30amFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Today the Victorian Upper House will debate the Legalise Cannabis Victoria Bill to regulate adult use of cannabis. Prohibition of cannabis is failed policy, with more than one third of Victorian adults having accessed cannabis. The time has come…
MEDIA RELEASE | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 15 November 2023 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are eight-times more likely to be arrested for possession of Cannabis according to data from the Crime Statistic Agency (CSA). In response to a Question on Notice to the Police Minister,…
14 November 2023 The Parliamentary Budget Office estimates the 2022 illicit cannabis market in Victoria was worth a whopping $1,020bn to $1,270bn. Legalise Cannabis Victoria believe this figure clearly demonstrates that prohibition is failed policy and justifies the need to regulate cannabis as they prepare…
MEDIA RELEASE | For immediate release30 August 2023 Today the Legislative Council will debate Legalise Cannabis Victoria’s motion for a parliamentary inquiry into workplace drug testing for medicinal cannabis patients. Medicinal cannabis has been legal in Victoria since 2016. Yet simply for taking a lawfully…
