By
Greg Mayfield
CAMPAIGNER:
Dianah Mieglich, holding some hemp products, flanked by Rotarians
Sebastian Mezzino, left, Warren Johns and Peter Richens.
Ms Mieglich is a member of the Cannabis Council which is dedicated to law change.
She is also well known as the implementation manager of Port Pirie’s Targeted Lead Abatement Program which is involved in the blood-lead program among children.
Ms Mieglich said the death of her father with cancer had inspired her to seek better pain relief treatment that was available from medicinal use of marijuana.
At the latest meeting of the Rotary Club of Port Pirie, she displayed products made from hemp including clothes, materials, rope, oil and lotion.
“Mankind has been using marijuana back as far as 2700BC,” she said.
“It was used to treat gout … and was the world’s best anaesthetic.
“Queen Victoria used it to relieve menstrual cramps and the pain of childbirth. That does not make Queen Victoria square.
“Cannabis works and is active in the brain.”
She said cannabinoids were naturally-occurring in breastmilk and may
contribute to the contented behaviour of babies after feeding.
She said hemp oil and seeds were “super food”.
The benefits have been documented with about 17,000 scholarly articles being published around the world about marijuana including its uses in treating auto-immune disease and epilepsy.
“It is not fair for families having to access it on the black market to treat pain,” she said.
“I would not even have been having this conversation 10 or 15 years ago – it is only after the death of my father – it was painful – and his having to use opioid medication to control his pain.”
She said she once would have said marijuana users should be locked up, but now she and other Cannabis Council members were campaigning for legalisation of industrial, medicinal and recreational marijuana.
Ms Mieglich stood for Partnership with Purpose for the Senate at the 2013 federal election and previously worked for Independent Member for Frome Geoff Brock.
She told Rotarians that she had been impressed with the Marijuana Party while campaigning.
She said hemp oil and seeds were “super food”.
The benefits have been documented with about 17,000 scholarly articles being published around the world about marijuana including its uses in treating auto-immune disease and epilepsy.
“It is not fair for families having to access it on the black market to treat pain,” she said.
“I would not even have been having this conversation 10 or 15 years ago – it is only after the death of my father – it was painful – and his having to use opioid medication to control his pain.”
She said she once would have said marijuana users should be locked up, but now she and other Cannabis Council members were campaigning for legalisation of industrial, medicinal and recreational marijuana.
Ms Mieglich stood for Partnership with Purpose for the Senate at the 2013 federal election and previously worked for Independent Member for Frome Geoff Brock.
She told Rotarians that she had been impressed with the Marijuana Party while campaigning.
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