RENEWED calls to decriminalise medicinal cannabis use will resonate with many in the community.
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For most advocates, it is clearly a personal and emotional situation.
They want to see certainty around the issue because they or someone they care about is impacted by its use.
A Legislative Council committee this week released its final report, which called for the use of medicinal cannabis to be decriminalised.
The state government has rejected calls to decriminalise medicinal cannabis, preferring instead to wait for trials of the treatment in New South Wales.
There have been several people come forward with stories of family members who have been unreceptive to other medication and getting relief from their symptoms from cannabis.
Launceston woman Lyn Cleaver last week spoke about how her son Jeremy Bester found relief from his severe epilepsy through cannabis.
The 24-year-old, who was diagnosed with epilepsy as a six-year-old, has severe epileptic seizures and is unresponsive to medications.
Surgery had also failed to stop the seizures.
Ms Cleaver and her partner Malcolm Amundsen have started the "Fight for Jem" campaign on social media in a bid to get laws surrounding medicinal cannabis changed.
Footage uploaded to Youtube showing a typical seizure makes for confronting viewing.
There would not be a parent in the world who would see their child enduring such an event and believe the status quo was acceptable.
"Up until we started the cannabis therapy with Jeremy, he was very unstable with his seizure activity and his behaviour," Ms Cleaver told The Examiner.
"It's the only medication that's worked (without side-effects)," Mr Amundsen said.
"If it wasn't for cannabis, he'd be seized and on the couch for three or four hours."
Ms Cleaver went as far as to turn herself in to police on Christmas Eve, admitting to growing a crop of cannabis to treat her son's seizures.
While police have said they will not prosecute legitimate cases of people using cannabis for medicinal use, there are several questions people want answered.
Such as: how many plants can they grow? Who can provide cannabis? Can they use it in public?
Are other people in the supply chain free from prosecution?
Break O'Day councillor Hannah Rubenach, who has also spoken about growing cannabis to treat her brother's seizures caused by a childhood brain injury, has raised similar questions.
The action of Tasmania Police is sensible and commendable but it is awkward to put officers in the situation of ignoring laws that they swear to uphold.
It must also contribute to an already stressful situation for users or suppliers that the only thing standing between prosecution is an informal undertaking, not legitimate legislation.
The government's position is also understandable - it should not rush in to legalising a drug without proper clinical evidence.
Waiting for the NSW trial and having Tasmania's chief pharmacist observing the expert panel is sensible.
Should it be approved, there would clearly need to be strict guidelines of how medicinal cannabis is grown and how and why it is prescribed.
Hopefully, the study finds in favour to reduce one avenue of stress people do not need.