Legalise Cannabis WA MP Brian Walker says he has reached an impasse with the state government after it failed to deliver on long-standing commitments to reform drug driving laws.
The remarks follow indications from the New South Wales government that legislation permitting unimpaired medicinal cannabis patients to drive could be tabled in May.
Walker welcomed the NSW development but said it threw WA's inaction into sharper relief.
He noted that the government has had six months to act on recommendations from its own THC-driving working group, which was set up after a 2023 WA parliamentary inquiry concluded that the state's zero-tolerance laws were unfairly penalising medicinal cannabis patients.
That group was charged with examining impairment evidence and exploring legislative changes that would let prescribed medicinal cannabis users get behind the wheel when not impaired.
Yet after months of deliberation by the state government, no amendments to the law have been brought forward.
"I entered parliament to help my patients, and to date, all I've managed to get from the government are lukewarm promises," Walker said, labelling the McGowan and Cook Labor governments as "cloth-eared".
Walker announced that the Legalise Cannabis Party would withdraw its support for government legislation in the WA parliament.
"They have shown they are no friend to the medicinal cannabis community, and that is how I propose to treat them as a result," he said.
