United in Compassion (UIC) co-founder Lucy Haslam has won Medicinal Cannabis Industry Australia’s inaugural Olivia Newton-John Service to Industry Award.

Announcing Haslam’s win from his home in California, Newton-John’s husband John Easterling described the “unnecessary suffering” she and her son Dan suffered when he was dying from bowel cancer, unable to access then-illegal medicinal cannabis to ease his suffering due to “ignorance and arrogance”.

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  1. Excellent news and a wonderful result. Congratulations to Lucy Haslam, you have instigated great and positive change in the Australian community. It’s this type of grass-roots movement, that works with open heartedness and truth, that leads society into a more positive and compassionate future.