Sunday Night Channel 7 - Medical Cannabis, page-15

Labor backbencher 'very confident' cannabis bill will pass

https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6397162/labor-backbencher-very-confident-cannabis-bill-will-pass/

re: ACT legislation due to pass

"We believe the ACT is able and entitled to make our own laws on this matter," the reported tabled on Thursday stated. "However, we would be the first jurisdiction in Australia to legislate in this way, and the interaction with existing Commonwealth law remains untested."The amendments proposed by the government aim to reduce the risk to individual Canberrans but cannot remove this entirely."But Mr Pettersson was confident his proposed cannabis laws would not be overridden. "The Commonwealth law was written to understand that there are differences between the state and territory, and the commonwealth," he said.