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Change Agents: Alex Wodak and Lucy Haslam on the push to legalise medicinal cannabis

  • Written by Andrew Dodd, Program Director - Journalism, Swinburne University of Technology
imageLucy Haslam and Alex Wodak helped convince the public and politicians that the time for legalised medicinal cannabis had come.AAP/Alan Porritt

In 2016 three Australian states and the Commonwealth passed laws to legalise the growing of medicinal cannabis. It was an extraordinary result for a campaign that struggled for decades to gain traction.

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