It’s not addictive, won’t get you high and has been touted as a magic bullet for everything from anxiety to eczema. So why is cannabidiol (CBD) still so hard to get, seven years after it was legalised? In 2018, Justine Martin asked her neurologist for a prescription for CBD oil for multiple sclerosis-related pain that was keeping
It’s not addictive, won’t get you high and has been touted as a magic bullet for everything from anxiety to eczema. So why is cannabidiol (CBD) still so hard to get, seven years after it was legalised?
In 2018, Justine Martin asked her neurologist for a prescription for CBD oil for multiple sclerosis-related pain that was keeping her up at night. Medicinal use of CBD, which is derived from the cannabis plant, had been legalised two years earlier in Australia, in 2016. “I’d had severe reactions to all the other pain medications I’d tried,” says Martin, a Geelong-based artist and keynote speaker.
After her doctor waded through treacle-like red tape to legally access CBD, Martin slept well for the first time in a decade. “My fatigue the next day was nowhere near as bad because I wasn’t waking up with nerve pain or leg spasms,” she recalls.
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