Australians are expected to spend an estimated $1 billion on medical cannabis this year as use of the drug skyrockets.
Exclusive data has revealed reliance has quadrupled in just two years while illicit marijuana use is climbing.
Victorian resident Michael Perman used to smoke illicit marijuana.
“I was smoking cannabis at the time to treat chronic pain,” Perman said
When medical marijuana was legalised he said it transformed his life.
“When I was prescribed to the oxycodone, you lived in a perpetual fog, which is where cannabis, I found extremely useful in that it allowed me to gain clarity,” Perman said.
