Australian Cancer fighter’s dying wish to legalise medicinal cannabis one step closer

THE State’s first medicinal cannabis trial will begin next year, with the state government revealing dozens of ­organisations have expressed interest in running it.

In the week which key campaigner Dan Haslam passed away, Premier Mike Baird said an expert panel would meet in two weeks to decide which group would run the clinical trials, with the successful ­applicants named in June.

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The $9 million trials will begin in 2016 and first results will likely be available in 2017.

They will explore the role medical cannabis plays for the terminally ill and children with drug resistant epilepsy. The trials have come about as a ­result of Mr Haslam’s story which appeared in The Sunday Telegraph last May.

The 25-year-old sufferer of bowel cancer, who publicly called for the legalisation of cannabis for the terminally ill, passed away last...

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