Elodea canadensis Cannabis sativa Alternanthera pungens Lagarosiphon major Egeria densa Prosopis spp.

In 2018 -19 SAPOL issued 8 304 cannabis expiation notices, seized around 222 kilograms of methamphetamine, 6 645 cannabis plants, 15 kilograms of heroin and 939 litres of fantasy; as well as located/dismantled 59 clandestine laboratories.

Illicit drug use has decreased from 14.2% in 2010 to 10.8% in 20166, with a similar decrease in Cannabis use, from 12% in 2010 to 5.9% in 2016.7 Despite this positive trend, children and young people in contact with me continue to express a range of concerns regarding the use of drugs and alcohol, as well as the support options that exist for them, their peers, family and community.

But I think what shouldn't be missed here is the fact that, while we have a medicinal product that we are taking through the medicinal route, as we have in the UK, the 500,000 people in Australia broadly using electronic cigarettes today are using electronic cigarettes that are not those.

(6) The applicant must provide the Board with the following information as to the state of the applicant's health: (a) information relating to medical advice, examination or treatment received by the applicant; (b) information as to any other treatment received by the applicant for any illness, condition or disability suffered by the applicant; (c) information as to any illness, condition or disability suffered by the applicant or any symptoms suffered by the applicant that may indicate an illness, condition or disability; (d) information as to any drugs or other substances (whether legal or illegal and whether medicinal or not) taken by the applicant or to which the applicant has been exposed, and the Board may require an applicant to provide satisfactory evidence of the state of the applicant's health

`Alternative' medicine continued to expand during 1980, particularly the sale of `natural' and `herbal' medicinal preparations.

Work has continued apace in rolling out the Gardens 150 capital program with significant progress on the construction of the Amazon Waterlily Pavilion and on planning for the regeneration of the Museum of Economic Botany, the new Western Entry and for a new medicinal garden.

Funded Training Programs Committee RANZCP • 2021 – Honorary Research Associate – Telethon Kids Institute • 2019 – Clinical lead, Psychiatry and Chair of Rural and Remote Mental Health Practice, The Rural Clinical School of WA, University of Western Australia • 2019 – Rural Advisor, Editorial Board, Australasian Psychiatry RANZCP • 2019 – Binational Chair, Rural Section of Psychiatry RANZCP • 2013 – Consultant Psychiatrist, WA Country Health Service Past • 2020-2022 Commissioner, National Mental Health Commission • 2021 – Expert Advisory Group – Mental health and wellbeing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on rural and remote individuals and communities • 2018-2020 Australasian College of Emergency Medicine, Better Mental Health Care in Rural Emergency Departments working group • 2018-2019 Steering Committee, Methamphetamine Action Plan, Department of Health WA • 2017-2021 WA Representative, Faculty of Addiction Psychiatry RANZCP • 2017-2018 Expert Panel for Medicinal

We have had some minor cannabis expiation notices, but the bulk of it is what we call 'residual admits', so people have taken drugs within the last 24 hours or so, so that odour is still on them, but they don't have anything on them at the time.