The work of Professor Marco Falasca has shown that CBD can synergize with gemcitabine to fight pancreatic cancer in preclinical models. The Pancreatic Cancer Initiative was launched to raise funds to support further preclinical and clinical research by Dr. Falasca to improve the prognosis of pancreatic cancer patients.

Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) is the largest global youth-led network dedicated to ending the War on Drugs. At its heart, SSDP is a grassroots organization, led by a Board of Directors primarily elected by and from student and youth members. They bring young people of all political and ideological orientations together to have honest conversations about drugs and drug policy. They create change by providing a platform where members collaborate, communicate, share resources with, and coach each other to generate policy change, deliver honest drug education, and promote harm reduction. Founded in 1998, SSDP is comprised of thousands of members in hundreds of communities around the globe.

SSDP mobilizes and empowers young people to participate in the political process, pushing for sensible policies to achieve a safer and more just future. They do this while fighting back against counterproductive policies – in particular, those that directly harm students and youth.

Members of SSDP have been instrumental in achieving many significant medical cannabis reforms throughout the United States.

United in Compassion is Australia’s Peak Medicinal Cannabis advocacy body which helped bring about the 2016 legislative changes that made lawful cultivation of the plant for medical and research purposes possible.

Founded in 2014 by Lucy Haslam and her late son Dan, UIC’s main functions since then have been to promote education and knowledge around clinical uses of cannabis as well campaigning for improved patient access to what, for many, can be a life-saving medicine. This is in light of the fact that the 2016 Amendments to the Narcotic Drugs Act have failed and are failing to deliver on the promise to deliver affordable cannabis products for sick Australians who need them.

Our philosophy is the dignified alleviation of suffering with compassion and empathy according to ‘Dan’s Test.’

Our primary mission is advocating for patient access to Full Spectrum herbal Medicinal Cannabis extracts and dried herb cannabis in a manner which is safe, effective, affordable, equitable and favourable to patients.

Dan’s test sets expectations of high quality products that are legally and easily accessible with no patient left behind.

Such products should be:

• Equitably and favourably accessible to patients;
• Naturally outdoor/greenhouse grown herbal Medicinal Cannabis;
• Cultivated using organic principles;
• Available in of a wide range of varieties (chemovars) to treat an equally wide range of health conditions;
• Manufactured with Full Spectrum plant extraction processes;
• Dried Herb (cannabis floral clusters) for use in electric personal vaporisation devices;
• Of high standards of production & manufacturing, by employing relevant of Quality Assurance practices.

Dan Haslam was instrumental in bringing the issue of the therapeutic use of herbal Medicinal Cannabis to the forefront and into the national Australian consciousness. He benefited dramatically from his use of local Australian grown herbal medicinal varieties of cannabis during his battle with cancer.

Though he passed away on the 24th of February 2015, his legacy lives on.

‘Every step we take on Medical Cannabis, will be built on the footsteps Dan Haslam left behind.’

Mike Baird – Premier of New South Wales

The mission of Americans for Safe Access (ASA) is to ensure safe and legal access to cannabis (marijuana) for therapeutic use and research.

ASA was founded in 2002, by medical cannabis patient Steph Sherer, as a vehicle for patients to advocate for the acceptance of cannabis as medicine. With over 100,000 active members in all 50 states, ASA is the largest national member-based organization of patients, medical professionals, scientists and concerned citizens promoting safe and legal access to cannabis for therapeutic use and research. ASA works to overcome political, social and legal barriers by creating policies that improve access to medical cannabis for patients and researchers through legislation, education, litigation, research, grassroots empowerment, advocacy and services for patients, governments, medical professionals, and medical cannabis providers.

Cannabis Doctors Australia provides Medicinal Cannabis clinics and education. Cannabis Doctors Australia was one of the first Medicinal Cannabis clinics in Australia, and is one of the major prescribers of Medicinal Cannabis.