00:00It's been a difficult recovery for this West Australian man who was in a horrific car crash
00:07last year.
00:08I hit my head on the side of the car window, came to and my legs were pinned, I couldn't
00:12get the door open.
00:14This month he was fined $700 despite not being at fault.
00:18He has a medicinal cannabis prescription and took a dose two days before the crash.
00:23A blood test after the accident revealed the drug was in his system.
00:28I didn't willingly go out to have an accident, I didn't willingly go out to break the law
00:33by having this in my system.
00:35I was completely and utterly unimpaired.
00:39One legal advocate says the case highlights a double standard.
00:43Now if that person was picked up and they were taking, as I say, a pharmaceutical painkiller
00:50or Valium, there'd be no problem, the police would just say drive on.
00:54Tasmania is the only state where a patient on prescribed cannabis is exempted.
00:59Victoria has just changed the law to allow a magistrate discretion if a driver has a
01:03cannabis prescription.
01:05The WA government is awaiting a report meanwhile on whether to introduce similar changes.
01:10The ACT and South Australia have both told the ABC they are willing to consider reform,
01:16while the Northern Territory has rejected any change to possible rules.
01:20Please have a look at it, have a look at this situation, come together bipartisanly
01:25and have a look and tackle this issue.
01:27And appeal for medicinal cannabis to be treated like other drugs.
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