Dale Dunster and other medicinal cannabis users in NSW would no longer need to fear losing their driver’s licence if proposed laws were passed.

The Legalise Cannabis Party will on Wednesday introduce a bill to state parliament that offers prescribed medicinal cannabis users a defence to roadside drug testing laws.

The proposal would not apply if the driver was impaired.

Mrs Dunster, who has Parkinson’s disease and a lung condition, says the defence would mean she could get behind the wheel without having to plan out the medicine that makes her “feel normal”.

“It plays on my mind if I have to go anywhere,” the 73-year-old from Ballina in northern NSW told AAP.

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