Medical Cannabis Persuasive Speech
An innocent, four-year-old girl suffers from daily seizures. Her parents look on, experiencing her pain vicariously, powerless. An old man lays in hospital, terminal, his last days spent in agony. The tragedy: both situations, we are assured, are preventable, if only medicinal cannabis were legal.
These are familiar stories. These are stories that distinguish medicinal cannabis coverage from just another abstract, recurring news item, transforming it into a real human issue. They tick all the right boxes. This is not another one of those stories.
A simple search of The Courier Mail and Sydney Morning Herald websites returns an abundance of stories matching this profile. In light of Green’s leader Richard Di Natale’s cross-party supported Regulator of Medicinal Cannabis Bill being …show more content…
“The problem,” he clarifies, “is that the media is totally ignorant of the status of medical cannabis in Australia. It has been legal in Australia for about 18 years.” “Medical cannabis is available, and the media is keeping it from the Australian public. There are people who could benefit from it, and they’re being kept in the dark by the media. That’s a real problem.”
Allegations of media misconduct are hardly ground-breaking. Accusations of media ignorance, bias, and distortions of fact, of surreptitious motives and reckless and irresponsible reporting, are a regular tactic, brandished to garner to sympathy, divert blame, or reallocate focus.
Thankfully, Mr Christian has proof.
Marinol, a THC pill, has been available in Australia since the 1990s. Sativex, an oral spray whole leaf cannabis extract, was approved in 2012. Between them, these medications treat nausea and vomiting in cancer patients, loss of appetite in AIDs patients, and spasticity in multiple sclerosis patients, with clinical trials ongoing to ascertain numerous other
These are familiar stories. These are stories that distinguish medicinal cannabis coverage from just another abstract, recurring news item, transforming it into a real human issue. They tick all the right boxes. This is not another one of those stories.
A simple search of The Courier Mail and Sydney Morning Herald websites returns an abundance of stories matching this profile. In light of Green’s leader Richard Di Natale’s cross-party supported Regulator of Medicinal Cannabis Bill being …show more content…
“The problem,” he clarifies, “is that the media is totally ignorant of the status of medical cannabis in Australia. It has been legal in Australia for about 18 years.” “Medical cannabis is available, and the media is keeping it from the Australian public. There are people who could benefit from it, and they’re being kept in the dark by the media. That’s a real problem.”
Allegations of media misconduct are hardly ground-breaking. Accusations of media ignorance, bias, and distortions of fact, of surreptitious motives and reckless and irresponsible reporting, are a regular tactic, brandished to garner to sympathy, divert blame, or reallocate focus.
Thankfully, Mr Christian has proof.
Marinol, a THC pill, has been available in Australia since the 1990s. Sativex, an oral spray whole leaf cannabis extract, was approved in 2012. Between them, these medications treat nausea and vomiting in cancer patients, loss of appetite in AIDs patients, and spasticity in multiple sclerosis patients, with clinical trials ongoing to ascertain numerous other