If you use MEDICINAL CANNABIS legally prescribed by your doctor, you are trapped by a broken law.
You can drive safely. You are not impaired. You pose no risk to anyone on the road. Yet if you are stopped and tested, you can be charged with drug driving, and convicted, regardless of whether your cannabis affected your ability to drive at all.
“This is not safe. It is not fair. It is not the law that other Australian states have accepted.”
Current WA road law does not distinguish between prescribed medical use and illicit use. It does not test for impairment. It punishes prescription-holding patients for traces of THC that may linger in their system long after any effect has worn off. Both Tasmania and Victoria have driving laws that consider medicinal cannabis. The law recognises what doctors, patients, and neuroscience already know: the presence of a substance is not the same as impairment.
West Australia is about to have the same opportunity.
The WA Medicinal Cannabis and Safe Driving Working Group is developing recommendations right now. The moment to shape that outcome is now! If your MP hears from you and from others using medicinal cannabis lawfully, it changes how this problem is framed. Silence means this stays broken.
You deserve a law that protects your safety and respects your rights as a person following medical advice.
Tell your MP to:
- 🥬Support driving laws that test for actual impairment, not presence.
- 🥬Align WA with Tasmania and Victoria.
- 🥬Fix the gap between what the law says and what safety actually requires.
Presence Does Not
Equal Impairment
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