{"id":84004,"date":"2025-10-28T06:26:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2025\/10\/28\/nsw-govt-rejects-medicinal-cannabis-defence\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T20:01:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T04:01:53","slug":"nsw-govt-rejects-medicinal-cannabis-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2025\/10\/28\/nsw-govt-rejects-medicinal-cannabis-defence\/","title":{"rendered":"Nsw Govt Rejects Medicinal Cannabis Defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/alexander-grey-h-Z1tJn-gDk-unsplash-1-scaled.jpg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\"> <\/p>\n<div class=\"hs-featured-image-wrapper\">\n <a href=\"https:\/\/420intel.com\/blog\/nsw-govt-rejects-medicinal-cannabis-defence\" title=\"\" class=\"hs-featured-image-link\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/alexander-grey-h-Z1tJn-gDk-unsplash-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Nsw Govt Rejects Medicinal Cannabis Defence\" class=\"hs-featured-image\" style=\"width:auto !important;max-width:50%;float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/> <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>On the far south coast of <strong>NSW<\/strong>, Shan Thinkatarai spends his days volunteering at a community radio station, hosting his regular \u201cTuesday Drive with Shan.\u201d But life changed drastically when he failed a roadside drug test in March \u00a0despite using prescribed <strong>medicinal cannabis<\/strong> two days earlier for chronic pain following back surgery.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ptq-49.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" style=\"min-height:1px!important;width:1px!important;border-width:0!important;margin-top:0!important;margin-bottom:0!important;margin-right:0!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-top:0!important;padding-bottom:0!important;padding-right:0!important;padding-left:0!important\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nRead More: <a href=\"https:\/\/420intel.com\/blog\/nsw-govt-rejects-medicinal-cannabis-defence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nsw Govt Rejects Medicinal Cannabis Defence<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the far south coast of NSW, Shan Thinkatarai spends his days volunteering at a community radio station, hosting his regular \u201cTuesday Drive with Shan.\u201d But life changed drastically when he failed a roadside drug test in March \u00a0despite using prescribed medicinal cannabis two days earlier for chronic pain following<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2025\/10\/28\/nsw-govt-rejects-medicinal-cannabis-defence\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":84005,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18774,18948],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84006,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84004\/revisions\/84006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}