🌿 I asked the government last week when we would get an answer on THC driving reform. Their response: “still considering.” Four months ago, the working group they commissioned handed them a completed report. The science is done. The recommendations exist.

Parliament is back, check out my new updates:

💸 This morning the Reserve Bank raised rates to 4.35% to fight inflation. This afternoon, I voted on a bill giving the WA Treasurer an extra $1.2 billion to spend this financial year. Both happened today.

Spent the weekend at Nimbin Mardi Grass. Spoke at the Hemposium. Met reformers from every state. The Force has always been strong with this one. May the 4th be with you. ⭐ #auspol #wapol #cannabis #legalisecannabis #lcwaparty #MayThe4th

🏛️ A billion dollars in political donations went undisclosed in Australia over two decades. Not stolen. Not illegal. Just hidden by design. High thresholds. Annual reporting. Associated entities that move money without touching the register.

💊 WA leads the nation for methamphetamine use. Again. New wastewater data confirms what I have known for 45 years in medicine: more policing has not reduced drug use or the harm from it. Not once. Not anywhere.

💰 Norway built a fund. We built a lobby. Last week in Perth, the Premier and Prime Minister sat down for breakfast with our biggest gas and mining companies. The message was familiar: don't bite the hand that feeds you.

🏛 Everyone talks about fixing democracy. Almost no one knows Athens already "solved" it 2,500 years ago. Sortition. Citizens chosen by lot. Not elected. Not appointed. Drawn, like jury duty, from the actual population.

Reading our local newspaper (The West Australian) while visiting Melbourne, and was enveloped by a sense of anger reading the article by Joe Spagnolo "Don't Bite The Hand That Feeds You" - so had to write my response. bfwalker.substack.com/p/the-hand-t...

🔍 The headache that keeps coming back is rarely about the headache. I learned that early. Give analgesia and the patient returns in three weeks. Ask what is actually producing it and you might fix something permanent. The presenting complaint is almost never the disease.

I've been talking about #psychedelics for YEARS in parliament!!! *crickets* Why is the Australian Government so scared to act first for a change? #auspol #wapol #legalisecannabis

Greetings from Down Under

Day 1 💚 Cape to Cape for #Cannabis

🌿 NSW is tabling THC driving reform next month! 🚗 WA has sat on the same recommendations for three years. Patients keep losing licenses because Cook won't follow his own science.

I will no longer support any government legislation going through the WA Parliament.  #auspol #wapol #cannabis #legalisecannabis #THCdriving

🌿 The TGA approved medicinal cannabis. Then it built a maze around it. I’ve had patients hand me a folder of paperwork just to get a prescription renewed. People who are well, who are stable, who just need the thing that works to keep working.

A foreign mining company is being allowed to walk away from its rehabilitation obligations - by the stroke of a government pen.

🔍 Some patients kept coming back with the same problem. Not because they weren't getting good care. Because no one had found the source yet.

A diagnosis, however sound, is not a destination. It is a threshold. I have spent five articles establishing what is structurally wrong with Australia's deliberative capacity. This final piece asks the harder question - what happens next, and who decides.

🌿 The South West is running out of fuel this Easter weekend. The same South West where WA farmers are growing industrial hemp. A crop that can be converted into #BIOFUEL. On the same roads where people are now queueing for what’s left.

Politics in the Pub: After Easter Edition 🐰 Join me for a night of cannabis reform talk at The Kwinana Local, Thu 9 Apr 6:30 PM 👉 https://lcwaparty.org.au/politics_in_the_pub_aftereaster #wapol #legalise

WA has the resources for hemp innovation - we just need the will to act before the devil knows we're dead. #wapol #auspol #hemp

🍺 Politics in the Pub: After Easter! Join me for a night of cannabis reform talk at The Kwinana Local. Thu 9 Apr, 6:30 PM, https://lcwaparty.org.au/politics_in_the_pub_aftereaster #wapol #legalise

Australia is the patient. The diagnosis is in. What happens now depends not on whether we understand what's wrong - but whether we're prepared to act on it. My latest Walker Briefing: https://bfwalker.substack.com/p/the-recovery-of-judgement #wapol #sovereignty

78% of Australians support decriminalising cannabis. The popular vote for reform nearly doubled between elections. And yet the law hasn't meaningfully changed since 1981.

Analysis is only valuable if it leads somewhere. I have spent months building the case for strategic reassessment - now it is time to talk about what we actually do. The final piece in this series arrives Monday.

📢 Perth Memory Walk & Jog postponed due to Cyclone Narelle. New date: Sunday 21 June Burswood Park Your spot is locked in. Not registered yet? There's still time! Beat dementia to the finish line.

🗳️ Nobody ever ran for Parliament because a brochure inspired them. They ran because someone they trusted looked them in the eye and said “you should do this.” 750 women have gone through @PathwaysToPolitics. 64 are serving right now.

🚬 WA Parliament recentlypassed a #tobacco bill. Every party voted yes. Except me. The only doctor in the room looked at the evidence and said no. Here’s why https://youtu.be/R2QV-SW6T44 #auspol #wapol #waparliament #smoking

🌿 Every other country is racing to capture the #hemp market. WA’s Innovation Minister couldn’t name a single initiative. This is a $40 billion global industry. We asked three direct questions. Watch what happened. https://youtu.be/NkQMaiqzPZM #auspol #wapol #hempaustralia

🌿 Six cannabis plants in your backyard. That sentence either sounds completely reasonable or completely terrifying, depending on what you were told growing up. The Cannabis Bill 2026 allows exactly that. What do you reckon? #auspol #wapol #cannabis #legalisecannabis #lcwaparty

🌿 Forty-six years as a GP has led to this... Today, as an elected Member of Parliament, I proudly tabled the #Cannabis Bill 2026 on behalf of my thousands of patients.

Please support my 96km March On challenge to help prevent veteran suicide and save lives. Together, we will show our brave heroes and their families that they are not forgotten. www.marchonchallenge.org.au/fundraisers/...

🟢 CANNABIS BILL 2026 — Notice Given in Parliament! Today, I gave notice of the Misuse of Drugs (Lawful Personal Use of #Cannabis) Amendment Bill 2026 in the WA Legislative Council. 🔗 Read the full Bill → brianwalkermlc.com.au/cannabis-bill-2026 #perth #wapol #auspol #westernaustralia

More mutterings on the current geopolitical issues for Australia. open.substack.com/pub/bfwalker...

A maintenance regime that is predominantly reactive is not maintenance, it's managed deterioration I’ve worked in WA’s health system for decades, the latest audit findings confirm what clinicians see everyday Read my full statement: tinyurl.com/3ps2myp7 #wapol

Science is awesome.

This morning I laid a wreath in Rockingham. We remember not to glorify war, but to honour sacrifice. To those who never made it home. Lest we forget. 🌺

Walk with me at Cape to Cape for #Cannabis 2026 - a four-day adventure along WA’s stunning coastline to raise funds for medicinal cannabis research. #420 📅 17–20 April 2026, Margaret River, WA 🎟️ Early bird tickets: trybooking.com/DDHMF

🍺 Politics in the Pub: Halloweed Edition 🌿🎃 #Bedfordale lcwaparty.org.au/politics_in_the_pub_halloweed_edition

Sending hugs to all healthcare workers. We really appreciate you even though you may not hear it often...

⛏️The government is trying to make it harder – and a lot more expensive – to campaign against mining leases here in WA. Harder to the tune of $450 per objection. That’s why I’ve tabled amendments recently: www.parliament.wa.gov.au/hansard/dail...

🎃 If you love good chats, cold beers, and cannabis reform that actually makes sense - this one’s for you. Come hang out with me at politics in the pub: 🍺 The Last Drop Elizabethan, Bedfordale - Oct 31, 6pm lcwaparty.org.au/politics_in_the_pub_halloweed_edition

It is remarkable how often the most important political comment in the daily West Australian is actually my favourite cartoon character.

🤫 Parliament's secrets won’t stay buried forever... I’m putting them in your inbox... Subscribe to my new newsletter here: → brianwalkermlc.com.au

From psychedelic medicine to hyperbaric oxygen therapy, endocannabinoid therapies, and TBI research - this conference brings world-class experts together to share what’s working, 1 year since the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide: www.propatria.com.au/ppc-news/12-...

☸️ My recent talk at the Buddhist Society of Western Australia: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g42k...

🌿HELP Protect Medicinal Cannabis Access in Australia: thepatientsau.good.do/access2025/E...