Alice Davy, from outer western Melbourne, is a single parent living with stage-four endometriosis and Multiple Sclerosis. After trying a range of medications, she found real relief through prescribed medicinal cannabis.
“Cannabis saved my life,” Alice says. “I was very sick. Now I’m calmer for my kids, I’ve regained a healthy weight and the severe tremor in my right hand is gone.”
Despite the life-changing benefits, Alice faces discrimination due to outdated drug driving laws. She never drives while impaired and strictly follows her doctor’s guidance, yet she risks losing her licence simply for using a legal, prescribed medication.
“A doctor is the expert – they should be the one to guide safe usage not the police,” she says.
Alice is speaking out to challenge unfair laws that target patients like her and to demand evidence-based policy that treats medicinal cannabis like any other prescription medication.
