EXCLUSIVE: Employees prescribed medicinal cannabis to treat work-related illness and injury are being denied financial help by the state-governed Workers Compensation scheme in another frustrating blow for patient access, a Cannabiz investigation has found.
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The employer-funded insurance scheme, which is overseen by individual states and territories, is designed to subsidise medical treatment and rehabilitation for people who suffer health issues because of their work.