Member Stories

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Member Stories

Real people. Real stories

Meet the everyday Australians behind the Legalise Cannabis movement. Our members include farmers, patients, parents, professionals and activists. Each has a unique story to tell.
Whether it’s about healing, hope or standing up for what’s right, these stories reflect the heart of our movement.

Read their stories. Be inspired. Join the change.

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Jessica - South Australia

Jessica Nies has been a long time advocate for cannabis after battling an ongoing chronic pain and fatigue condition, fibromyalgia, for many years.This condition left Jessica medically terminated from her career in...

Xavier - Victoria

I am Xavier, from Victoria, the Garden State. Growing up I was dead against drugs and cannabis, thanks to the propaganda I was fed. But as a teenager I became curious and...

Wayne - Victoria

My journey with cannabis started back in the early 80s. By grade three, I had already been expelled from primary school for aggression and not fitting in. I was sent to a...

Jacqueline - Queensland

I’m speaking up now because I’ve reached an age where society tends to write you off, but I’m not done. I’ve lived a full, complex life, raised five kids, worked across the...

Nathan - Queensland

I started smoking cannabis when I was 16. Curiosity and peer pressure, I guess. It wasn’t regular at first, just every now and then. It took a few years before it really...

Melody - Queensland

Herbalist / Counsellor My name is Melody Lindsay, but you can call me Mel if you like. I was born in an old farmhouse right in the middle of the calving paddock...

Jeff - South Australia

Cannabis Advocate My Journey with Cannabis and the Fight for Fairness. I moved back to Queensland after 12 years working as a State Sales Manager in Victoria. During that time, I survived...

Deb / Queensland

Clinical Nurse Consultant RN BSN CNC Hi, I’m Deb Ranson from Queensland. Like many others, I first used cannabis as a teenager. But later in life, I turned to it again this...

Andrew - NSW

Herbalist / Train Driver Suppressed. That’s how it feels — by prohibition, by outdated driving laws, and by restrictions on cannabis use as an employee. And to be honest, it pisses me...

Tia - NSW

Cannabis Advocate I was born in Balmain, NSW, and I identify as part of the Stolen Generations. At a young age, I was institutionalised along with my two older half-brothers. I was...

Elissa - Victoria

Educator, Glider Pilot, Medicinal Cannabis Advocate I started using cannabis at 18, not just recreationally, but out of desperation. I’d lived my whole childhood with undiagnosed Tourette’s Syndrome. I wasn’t medicated, I...