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Patient flies to Canada over "serious failure" in medicinal cannabis approval

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Ben Oakley, 22, has stiff persons syndrome and says medicinal cannabis pills have saved his life.
The current approval process can take months.(Supplied: Roll on Ben Oakley Facebook)

A Queensland man has flown to Canada to get medicine he needs but he says can take months to get in Australia.

Lindsay Carter was the first Queenslander to be prescribed medicinal cannabis, which he takes to prevent debilitating seizures caused by a brain tumour.

Despite the medicine being legalised at a federal level, he and other claim there are still lengthy delays in getting it.

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Reporting by George Roberts and Stephen Stockwell.

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Lindsay Carter, 19-year-old medicinal cannabis patient
Rhys Cohen, Sydney University's Lambert Institute for Cannabinoid Therapeutics
Lenai Carter, mother of Lindsay, who suffers seizures

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Australia, Canada, Cannabis, Pharmaceuticals, Federal Government
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