Where has all the legal medicinal cannabis gone?

A patient who uses medicinal cannabis to treat their ailments recently remarked in a social media forum that at present it's taking their chemist at least two weeks from payment to fill their prescription for cannabis medicine.

"They wonder why people prefer illicit," the patient wrote, adding that it only takes them about half an hour to "get sorted" with black market medicine, "as opposed to two to four weeks" via the pharmacy, which also involves having to undertake "doctor's appointments and costs".

The Medicinal Cannabis Users Association of Australia (MCUA) has this week called out the federal government's medicinal cannabis framework that - after four years - continues to allow the medicine that many patients use as their primary treatment to simply run out for weeks at a time.