Can I drive when taking medicinal cannabis? Is it safe?
- Written by Tom Arkell, NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow, School of Health Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology
Your doctor has just prescribed medicinal cannabis. You think it’s helping. But you rely on your car to get to work and pick up the kids.
Are you allowed to drive? And more importantly, is it safe?
Here’s what the evidence says and what it means for you.
Medicinal cannabis is now widely prescribed in Australia for conditions such as chron...





