The medicinal cannabis industry in Australia was long criticised for its slow laborious movement towards accessible product.
However, over recent years, the snail pace has developed into a gallop, as the nation, it was announced in January, has now one million people using the lawfully prescribed treatment.
This means that people who were treating ailments with cannabis medicine long before the Turnbull government passed legalising legislation in 2016, can now access such medicines without fear of arrest or conviction.