A sobering new report into suicide among Australia’s serving and veteran defence forces has sparked fresh appeals for the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) to end its hard line approach to subsidising medicinal cannabis as a treatment for mental health trauma.

As veteran advocates spoke of the need for individualised support, ex-serviceman Derek Pyrah again called on the DVA to adopt such an approach and re-think its attitudes to cannabis.

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