Page 4435 - Week 14 - Thursday, 1 December 1994
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Mr Moore: Would you fund such inquiries? Did you tell me that you would not fund them?
MR CONNOLLY: You did not ask about funding.
Mr Moore: I did, indeed. I did, in your office on Monday, and you know it.
MR CONNOLLY: You are wiggling and wriggling, and I can understand why. Just shush.
Mr Moore: On Monday, when I asked you, you said to me, "I will not fund it".
MR CONNOLLY: That is a lie.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Connolly, you will have to withdraw that.
MR CONNOLLY: I withdraw the word "lie". You did not ask me to fund them, and I did not refuse to fund them.
Mr Moore: That is a lie.
MR CONNOLLY: I did say to you that I would help you to facilitate serious medical research. I warned you about grandstanding on this issue. I warned you that you could set back by years the cause of cannabis law reform by the stunt you pulled yesterday and the amazing efforts of the Liberal Opposition. But you would not listen, and nor would they.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Moore - - -
Mr Moore: Madam Speaker, I withdraw the word "lie".
MADAM SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Moore.
MR CONNOLLY: At page 196, we are told:
Much of the case for the therapeutic uses of cannabinoids as other than anti-emetic agents depends upon anecdotal evidence from case histories.
Hence the problem; hence the recommendation in the final report of the national task force on cannabis that the National Drug Strategy Committee, which involves Health Ministers, Attorneys-General and Police Ministers - we have unanimity in the ACT - should consider the funding, facilitating or promoting of further research in areas including controlled research into the efficacy of synthetic cannabinoid products as treatments for nausea. That is synthetic cannabinoid products; it is not open slather for reefers, not research that allows you to grow five plants that may be one per cent THC or 30 per cent THC. It is clinical research. One would assume that Mrs Carnell, as a pharmacist, knows that. She thinks she is a doctor. She thinks that, with Mr Moore, they can make clinical decisions about appropriate treatments.
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