Sunday 25 September 2022 11:50 PM Lisa Wilkinson's ex Project co-host responds to her call for medical marijuana ... trends now

Sunday 25 September 2022 11:50 PM Lisa Wilkinson's ex Project co-host responds to her call for medical marijuana ... trends now
Sunday 25 September 2022 11:50 PM Lisa Wilkinson's ex Project co-host responds to her call for medical marijuana ... trends now

Sunday 25 September 2022 11:50 PM Lisa Wilkinson's ex Project co-host responds to her call for medical marijuana ... trends now

TV presenter Meshel Laurie has taken a dig at her former The Project co-host Lisa Wilkinson for rallying around parliament's new plan to ease restrictions around medical cannabis. 

Wilkinson, 62, raised eyebrows on Sunday night's show when she claimed it was 'common sense' for medical cannabis users in Australia to be allowed to drive. 

Laurie, 49, who has been a vocal critic of The Project since being sacked by Ten in 2019, responded to Wilkinson's claims by joking that the journalist has a vested interest in promoting cannabis. 

TV presenter Meshel Laurie, 49, (left) has taken a dig at her former The Project co-host Lisa Wilkinson, 62, (right) for rallying around parliament's new plan to ease restrictions around medical cannabis on Sunday's show 

'Just invested in a cannabis farm no doubt,' Laurie sarcastically captioned a screenshot of a Daily Mail Australia's story reporting Wilkinson's claims on Sunday night. 

The podcaster completed her post with an eye-roll emoji and a laughing/crying emoji.

Laurie has since deleted her post.

During The Sunday Project, co-hosts Hamish Macdonald (left) and Wilkinson (right) agreed that there should be 'common sense' cannabis laws in Australia

During The Sunday Project, co-hosts Hamish Macdonald (left) and Wilkinson (right) agreed that there should be 'common sense' cannabis laws in Australia 

'Just invested in a cannabis farm no doubt,' Laurie sarcastically captioned a screenshot of a Daily Mail Australia's story reporting Wilkinson's claims on Sunday night

'Just invested in a cannabis farm no doubt,' Laurie sarcastically captioned a screenshot of a Daily Mail Australia's story reporting Wilkinson's claims on Sunday night

Wilkinson's comments came after Greens senator David Shoebridge announced the progressive's party's push to legalise the drug in a controversial draft bill to be released for public consultation later this year - before hitting the floor of parliament for vote some time next year.

Part of the proposed legislation would allow medical cannabis users to legally get behind the wheel of a car - something already permitted in the state of Tasmania as long as drivers are not impaired.

'Surely this is just common sense,' the Channel Ten host said, when speaking about differentiating between driving after using medicinal cannabis for pain and driving after using it recreationally. 

Laurie has been a vocal critic of The Project since being sacked by Ten in 2019. (Pictured: Laurie on The Project before being fired with Waleed Aly, Wilkinson and Anthony Lehmann)

Laurie has been a vocal critic of The Project since being sacked by Ten in 2019. (Pictured: Laurie on The Project before being fired with Waleed Aly, Wilkinson and Anthony Lehmann)

'This is doctors talking to police and - a box being ticked.

'Tasmania as is so often the case, gets it right.' 

The Greens, on the back of their federal election success in May, are hoping to put pressure on Anthony Albanese's Labor government to pass the bill allowing cannabis to be legalised in Australia for personal use.

'More than 40 per cent of Australians at some point have smoked cannabis and having the law make that 40 per cent of Australians criminals is just plain ridiculous,' Greens senator David Shoebridge told Nine news

'We want to legislate to legalise cannabis by the end of next year.'

He said Australian's have been told to wait for cannabis law reform for too long, adding that more harm to the community is being inflicted by 'policing the drug'.

Though the states have consistently said no to legalising cannabis, constitutional lawyer Patrick Keyzer said the Federal Government can override them.

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