Bidois DanDAN BIDOIS (National—Northcote): It's a pleasure this evening to speak on a bill that I'm just becoming familiar with the Misuse of Drugs (Medicinal Cannabis) Amendment Bill. I've been following this bill quite closely from aside—my colleague Shane Reti has been working diligently on this bill—and it's my pleasure to talk to clause 2. Just to echo the sentiment that my colleague Chris Penk raised I do feel that the commencement date which is the date that it comes into force which is essentially the date after it receives its Royal assent—I think that it's too early and I'll outline for you the reasons why I think it's too early.The first is around the impacts on this market. So we will essentially be allowing the use of medicinal cannabis including loose leaf for medicinal purposes and that will create a bit of an increase in market demand. So my sense is that the market will need time to respond to that and so we're going to need a little bit more time for the market to understand and get those ramifications.The second thing which I think my colleague touched on a little bit but I'll expand on a little bit more is around the consumer side. There are some serious health risks in this bill and we do need to ensure that the public is given a chance to have a sufficient awareness around the—Hon Stuart Nash: What it might kill you a week earlier?DAN BIDOIS: —yes thank you Stuart Nash—health risks of medicinal cannabis and that's also going to take time for an education campaign essentially to roll out in this bill. That means that the Government will require a little bit of money for this and I don't think the Government has actually budgeted any money for marketing for preparing the public for such a bill. So that leads me to the conclusion that we need a little bit more time—somewhere around the next Budget date where the Government would have essentially been able to put in the Budget some money for marketing for health awareness both from consumers but also from the market perspective as well.Just to reiterate what my colleague said around the justice system there are some significant implications of this bill for the justice system and they are going to need time to take into account the changes and the potential changes from this bill. So that leads me to this fantastic Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) in the name of my colleague Dr Shane Reti which is SOP 178. He's got a fantastic proposal in this—Chlöe Swarbrick: It's not about the commencement clause.DAN BIDOIS: It is. In fact if I just go to SOP 178 there's a fantastic recommendation by Shane to replace clause 2—CHAIRPERSON (Poto Williams): Order! Order! Full names please.DAN BIDOIS: Which is clause 2—CHAIRPERSON (Poto Williams): No—the member. When you're referring to another member—DAN BIDOIS: Shane Reti.CHAIRPERSON (Poto Williams): Thank you. We've gotten a little slack I have to say. I know we're heading into Christmas but we should honour the members with their full names and titles as appropriate. Thank you.DAN BIDOIS: I totally agree. Thank you Madam Chair. So Dr Shane Reti has proposed in his SOP 178 that we shift the date that this bill comes into force to six months after the date which the Act receives its Royal assent. I think that this would be an appropriate time for the bill to come into force given the issues that I've outlined in terms of the constraints on our Budget given the awareness and the health issues that we have raised today and given the justice issues that my colleague Chris Penk has raised. I think the six-months thing would mean that that would take us essentially to next year's Budget.So I would urge the Minister and I would encourage the Minister to respond to the proposal by Dr Shane Reti to shift the date into force six months after its Royal assent. So that is fantastic. Of course we oppose this bill. It would have been great to have other—and I'm looking forward to debate on that matter.