Legalise Cannabis Australia are delighted to announce lead Senate candidates for Victoria and New South Wales (NSW) for the upcoming Federal election.
In Victoria, Fiona Patten will be known to many of you. She was first elected to Victoria’s State Parliament in 2014 and re-elected for a second term in 2018.
During those eight years she was a champion for social justice and cannabis law reform. She established a medicinal cannabis taskforce in the first major attempt to fix the ridiculous RDT laws and then was the driving force behind the Inquiry into the Use of Cannabis in Victoria ... and she was the first political party leader to admit using cannabis regularly to relax!
Then for NSW we have Miles Hunt, co-founder of well-known drug harm minimisation charity, Unharm. He has been a tireless and very public campaigner for drug decriminalisation and legalisation all his adult life – including on medicinal and adult-use cannabis, pill testing and sniffer dogs. He famously came out as a drug-taking lawyer on the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald!
As a lawyer he often represented people charged with cannabis possession and believes that legalisation is long overdue. "The prohibition of cannabis has been one of the great failures of modern times. Legalisation and regulation of cannabis is necessary for a fair and just society, and when I get to Canberra I will do my best to make sure we get this done", he said.
1 September, 2024