The Woolomin branch has put forward the resolution for debate at the organisation’s 93rd annual general meeting.

Running from May 3 to 7, the conference is expected to attract about 800 visitors from right across the state.

Tamworth has been the epicentre of a national movement to legalise the use of cannabis for medical purposes.

Dan Haslam, whose campaign to legalise cannabis for medical purposes is credited with changing Premier Mike Baird’s stance, lost his battle against cancer in February.

The preamble to the Woolomin branch’s resolution states that sufferers of “chronic and terminal illness” can find relief from medical marijuana.

Branch president Beverley Dawson said the issue had been discussed at length among the 28 members.

“Pretty much all of us have been touched in some way with cancer and to see a loved one struggle, when this seems to be able to give some relief to people, is terrible,” she said.

Wanthella group president Margaret Schofield said the CWA remained a strong voice in public debate.

She said support for medical marijuana had almost become CWA policy way back in 1992 when a resolution failed by just a matter of votes.

“Once the resolutions are passed they become state policy and we lobby the government on that issue,” she said.

The NSW government will invest up to $9 million conducting medical marijuana clinical trials starting next year, with the results to be known within two to five years.

Other resolutions to be debated at the conference include that the “organ donor” option be reinstated on NSW driver’s licences, a “traffic light system” denoting the nutritional value of foods be established and that all airlines show a “surf awareness” video on international flights to Australia.