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Mr Heinrich is glad that his supply of cannabis oil has sparked a ‘national debate’. Photo: Melissa Adams[/caption]Police won’t pursue prosecution of a Canberra medical marijuana campaigner whose home was raided after he provided cannabis oil to a 2½-year-old girl. Officers raided Mark Heinrich’s home last year after he wrote to former ACT chief minister Katy Gallagher encouraging her to create a legal medical cannabis scheme to help people living with long term pain and chronic medical conditions. Mr Heinrich had been supplying cannabis oil to a Sydney family, for the treatment of their daughter Abbey who was suffering serious seizures and developmental delays as a result of the rare genetic disorder CDKL5. Small amounts of cannabis oil, administered through a feeding tube, led to a reduction in Abbey’s seizures and the raid left her family without a continuing supply, creating a situation of “life or death”.
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Federal Opposition leader Bill Shorten with Cherie Dell and her daughter Abbey, 3, who suffers from the very rare genetic disorder CDKL5. Photo: Brendan Esposito[/caption]About 800 children worldwide are believed to suffer from CDKL5, which causes seizures, low muscle tone and audio and visual impairment. There is no known cure for the condition.
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Mark Heinrich at his home in Canberra. Photo: Melissa Adams[/caption]Mr Heinrich said police told him last week he would not be charged over the raid, and items used for making cannabis oil tinctures that were seized from his home would be returned.
i hear you Bro Frosty
we are closer then we have ever been to legal medicinal cannabis, which matters not to the sufferers its tuff enough dealing with the sufferance…. prohibition just compounds their suffering. Prohibition must end. today….
Mark is pushing their boundary’s and moving forward.. gotta love that. everytime.
more power to yah Mark…
the current vibe is
australian grown and produced medicinal cannabis products will be on the shelves by 2017.the Turnbul Fed gov have a bill before parliament to legalize cultivation and production of medicinal cannabis to be voted on in the first sitting in 2016.
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