Children as voices and images for medicinal cannabis law reform.

IF 1.6 Q2 ETHICS

Monash Bioethics Review Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Epub Date: 2021-10-31 DOI:10.1007/s40592-021-00139-z

Ian Freckelton Ao Qc

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Abstract

This article situates the movement for the legalisation of medicinal cannabis within the bigger picture of the impetus toward recreational cannabis legalisation. It describes the role played by children with epileptic syndromes in the medicinal cannabis law reform campaigns in the United Kingdom, and Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria in Australia. Noting the 'rule of rescue' and the prominence in media campaigns of children in Australian and English cases of parental disputation with clinicians about treatment for their children, it reviews whether paediatric epilepsy is a suitable test case for the legalisation of medicinal cannabis. Taking into account the vested commercial interests of Big Cannabis, the current medico-scientific knowledge of the efficacy of medicinal cannabis in controlling paediatric epileptic seizures, and issues of dignity, health privacy, and the enduring digital footprints of media coverage, the article commences discussion about the ethics of the media, parents, politicians and entrepreneurial doctors utilising parents' testimonials about the effects of medicinal cannabis as part of the cannabis law reform movement.

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儿童作为药用大麻法律改革的声音和形象。

本文将药用大麻合法化运动置于推动娱乐用大麻合法化的大背景之下。文章描述了患有癫痫综合症的儿童在英国以及澳大利亚昆士兰州、新南威尔士州和维多利亚州的药用大麻法律改革运动中所扮演的角色。注意到 "抢救规则 "以及在澳大利亚和英国父母与临床医生就其子女治疗问题发生争议的案例中，儿童在媒体宣传中的突出地位，本报告审查了儿科癫痫是否适合作为药用大麻合法化的试验案例。考虑到大型大麻公司的既得商业利益、目前对药用大麻控制小儿癫痫发作疗效的医学科学知识，以及尊严、健康隐私和媒体报道的持久数字足迹等问题，文章开始讨论媒体、家长、政治家和企业家医生利用家长对药用大麻效果的证词作为大麻法律改革运动一部分的道德问题。

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Monash Bioethics Review ETHICS-

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期刊介绍： Monash Bioethics Review provides comprehensive coverage of traditional topics and emerging issues in bioethics. The Journal is especially concerned with empirically-informed philosophical bioethical analysis with policy relevance. Monash Bioethics Review also regularly publishes empirical studies providing explicit ethical analysis and/or with significant ethical or policy implications. Produced by the Monash University Centre for Human Bioethics since 1981 (originally as Bioethics News), Monash Bioethics Review is the oldest peer reviewed bioethics journal based in Australia–and one of the oldest bioethics journals in the world. An international forum for empirically-informed philosophical bioethical analysis with policy relevance. Includes empirical studies providing explicit ethical analysis and/or with significant ethical or policy implications. One of the oldest bioethics journals, produced by a world-leading bioethics centre. Publishes papers up to 13,000 words in length. Unique New Feature: All Articles Open for Commentary