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Worldwide Hashish Symposium 2025 Australia’s Position in Reforming the UN Drug Conventions to Permit for Hashish Regulation November 21, 2025 | College of Sydney, Australia
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Melanie Wentzel – Prowling Tigress: A she-cosystem of underutilised energy & a paucity of political champions
The unmet potential of ladies in hashish coverage. Girls lead hashish advocacy globally, prowling on the edges of hashish coverage, marking our territory (storytelling), defending our cubs (advocacy), and establishing territory (with social affect) – however hardly ever ship the ultimate strike within the hunt for coverage reform. The nice prowl does matter however solely goes to date with out the ultimate strike. Coverage reform requires political positioning, the place ladies are underrepresented particularly within the hashish agenda – this too wants to vary. It’s time for the hungry-for-change prowlers and hashish’s political champions to assemble and rise. It’s time for political champions to recognise the distinctive and untapped energy of ladies’s teams; and for ladies’s teams to boost their gaze, organise, and make extra strategic political advances. We should hunt as one.
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Melanie is devoted to the significant reemergence of hashish as a therapeutic device to enhance well being outcomes, expertise, and high quality of life, particularly for ladies who’re underserved, below researched, and underwhelmed by up to date well being methods. A world thought chief and worldwide speaker, beforehand featured in Forbes Journal, on the duvet of CIO Occasions, and in LOUD Journal, Mel is commonly featured in a variety of on-line publications and has been a featured visitor on 21 podcasts globally. An distinctive and wanted speaker and facilitator, she has loved talking engagements at trade main occasions within the US, UK, Iceland, New Zealand, Australia, and Zimbabwe.
In 2024, Melanie acquired a coveted ‘Girls Altering the World Rising Chief’ award. In the identical 12 months, she turned a #1 bestselling creator for ‘A Love Letter To Girls In Enterprise’, and self-published the seminal work ‘Hashish Queens’ which has been bought in to 17 international locations worldwide. She is the recipient of two American literary awards and has twice printed within the Medical Journal of Australia (MJA).Mel is a worldwide thinker and passionate storyteller, looking for the data of those that got here earlier than her and making use of it by evidence-based frameworks to drive high quality enchancment and the supply of revolutionary and rising fashions of care. She has labored extensively with the Australian Division of Well being, State Governments, medical schools, Major Well being Networks, peak our bodies, and organisations throughout the Australian, American and British healthcare landscapes delivering impactful and transformative packages for sufferers, communities, clinicians and the worldwide healthcare system.A seasoned skilled pushed by a imaginative and prescient of top quality, equitable healthcare, she believes in folks and their communities, and has devoted her profession to selling person-centred, respectful, and culturally responsive care.
A Bachelor of Psychological Science, she is a revered healthcare strategist and is an lively member of:• Australasian Society of Way of life Medication (ASLM)• Australian Girls’s Well being Alliance (AWHA)• Australian Society of Authors (ASA)• Individuals for Secure Entry (ASA)• We’re Jaine• Blunt Brunch• Persistent Ache Australia (CPA)• QENDO• Australian Endometriosis Coalition (ACE), and• EmpowHer Hashish Society (ECS).Mel is a proud Founding Visionary and Sport Changer with Veri Well being Media supporting Australian healthcare professionals and their companies to thrive!Go to www.melaniewentzel.com or discover Melanie on YouTube & Instagram to be taught extra & join.
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