Legalise Cannabis Victoria MP David Ettershank joins Cannabiz co-founder Martin Lane and chief correspondent Steve Jones to discuss drug-driving reform, workplace drug testing and the lessons to be learned from the duck controversy in Victoria.
Legalise Cannabis Victoria MP David Ettershank joins Cannabiz co-founder Martin Lane and chief correspondent Steve Jones to discuss drug-driving reform, workplace drug testing and the lessons to be learned from the duck controversy in Victoria.

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 to debate their Regulation of Adult (Personal Use) of Cannabis Bill next sitting week.

David has criticised the shutdown of a green truck grant scheme, urging filters for Westgate Tunnel stacks to cut pollution in Melbourne’s west.

For the first time in Australian legislative history, the same Bill will be introduced in three states on the same day by the Legalise Cannabis Party. The Regulation of Personal Adult Use of Cannabis Bill 2023 aims to legalise the personal consumption of cannabis in Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia.

Debate on the Industrial Hemp Bill, introduced to Parliament by the Legalise Cannabis Party, was adjourned on Wednesday (May 15) while the Allan Labor government formulates its response to both the bill and the hemp industry inquiry.
On May 15, 2025, Legalise Cannabis Victoria decided to support a Bill to establish the Emergency Services and Volunteer Funding Levy. This decision comes as the state faces challenges brought on by climate change, which have put significant pressure on emergency services. There have been…

Former magistrate Tony Parsons urges fairer laws for medicinal cannabis users facing licence loss despite no driving impairment.