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'Treated like a criminal': Medicinal cannabis shortage | Fraser Coast Chronicle


Caroline Schofield. Picture: Scott Powick
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by Kirstin Payne
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GOLD Coast medicinal cannabis users are running short on supplies, forcing legal users to turn to the black market, a patient advocacy group claims.
Industry experts, advocates and patients say the Christmas demand and strict prescription regulations have delayed supply, with some varieties completely sold out.
Coomera’s Caroline Schofield suffers from chronic back pain, epilepsy and PTSD and uses cannabis as an alternative to opioids. Picture: Scott Powick
It has left some without treatment for up to a month.
Advocacy group Medicinal Cannabis Users Australia (MCUA) say they feel they are being unfairly treated, arguing delays of any other medication would be treated as a national emergency.

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'Treated like a criminal': Medicinal cannabis shortage


Caroline Schofield. Picture: Scott Powick
News
by Kirstin Payne
Premium Content
Subscriber only
GOLD Coast medicinal cannabis users are running short on supplies, forcing legal users to turn to the black market, a patient advocacy group claims.
Industry experts, advocates and patients say the Christmas demand and strict prescription regulations have delayed supply, with some varieties completely sold out.
Coomera’s Caroline Schofield suffers from chronic back pain, epilepsy and PTSD and uses cannabis as an alternative to opioids. Picture: Scott Powick
It has left some without treatment for up to a month.
Advocacy group Medicinal Cannabis Users Australia (MCUA) say they feel they are being unfairly treated, arguing delays of any other medication would be treated as a national emergency.

Australia , Ghana , Gold-coast , Deb-lynch , Coomera-caroline-schofield , Ben-jensen , Scott-powick , Goods-administration , Caroline-schofield , Medicinal-cannabis-users-australia , Doctors-australia , Federal-government