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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Politics
Adeshola Ore

‘This is a medicine’: the Australians prescribed cannabis but left fighting to keep their jobs

Zhia Zariko
Zhia Zariko, a university lecturer who lives in Melbourne, was prescribed medical cannabis six months ago for anxiety and sleeping issues. Photograph: Christopher Hopkins/The Guardian

When Zhia Zariko told her manager she had a legal prescription for medical cannabis, she hoped it would help break down the stigma that people who use marijuana are “useless stoners”.

“Now everyone knows they work with someone who is a very high level worker, very hardworking, very engaged – and I am on medicinal cannabis,” says the university lecturer from Melbourne.

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