THERE needs to be a hero in the halls of parliament in the fight to fix Dan's law, Lucy Haslam says.
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The Tamworth mother has relaunched a change.org petition calling on people to add their voice to her call to improve ease of access to medicinal cannabis for seriously ill patients. It already has more than 260,000 signatures.
It is understood the United in Compassion website crashed on the weekend as people rushed to sign the petition.
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Mrs Haslam said she has become repulsed by laws created in her son's honour as the family blazed a trail for medicinal cannabis five years ago.
She has called on federal Labor to state its position on medical marijuana products before the election in May.
"I'm looking for the hero and if the hero is the minors and the independents, so be it," she said.
She said the coalition had "intentionally shackled" cannabis in the current special access scheme and she wouldn't waste her breath any more.
"They need to take responsibility for what they have done because they have caused many sick Australians to become criminals," she said.
Mrs Haslam appeared in a television commercial for Barnaby Joyce during the 2016 election campaign, but it won't be a scene repeated any time soon.
"Barnaby is a waste of space in this," she said.
The New England MP defended his efforts lobbying for medicinal cannabis access and emphasised he would be guided by experts.
"I did fight to get these changes made," he said.
"Show me the research, there's two two sides to every argument, show me both."
Mrs Haslam has called for independent regulator to be established to oversee the dispensation of medicinal cannabis in Australia and remove it from the Therapeutic Goods Administration's watch. Mr Joyce said he would be open to looking at the medicinal cannabis access again "as more evidence comes to light".