4 February 2025
LCWA Announces Husband-and-Wife Team for Kwinana & Dawesville Seats
In the final week before nominations close for the state election in March, the Legalise Cannabis WA Party has announced a husband-and-wife team to contest the seats of Kwinana and Dawesville.
Paul and Sharlene Mavor will be contesting the Kwinana and Dawesville seats respectively on behalf of Legalise Cannabis, and both are well known in the medicinal cannabis and hemp industries as innovators and leaders.
Paul is a registered pharmacist, and has owned several retail pharmacies in both the Australia and the UK. Over the past nine years, he has has taken a particular interest in researching the benefits of medicinal cannabis, and his company, Health House International, was granted the first medicinal cannabis import and export licence in Australia in 2017. Paul is currently a director of hemp food and beverage company Omega Assets, producing HERBEE hemp infused beer and spirits, and Chanvre hemp-fed beef. He recently co-founded WA’s first dedicated plant-based medicine dispensary in Malaga, and opened his second pharmacy, the Green Street Dispensary, in Mount Hawthorn.
Sharlene is a medical scientist, and co-founder and managing director of registered charity Medical Cannabis Research Australia (MCRA). This charity has, over the past seven years, become a leading resource across Australia for scientific education in the medicinal cannabis space, and a valuable source of advice for patients and potential patients alike. Sharlene is an associate member of the Society of Cannabis Clinicians, and a founding member of the Australian Chapter of the Society of Cannabis Clinicians. She has also written, conducted and recently completed a chronic pain observational clinical study partnered with WA cannabis clinician Dr Matty Moore.
Between them, Paul and Sharlene have successfully built their dream hemp house, showcasing the beauty, sustainability, and eco-friendliness of hempcrete. Their new home, which has been operating as an accommodation business for the last 18 months stands as a testament to how superior hempcrete is compared to other building methods and how well-suited it is to the Western Australian environment. You can watch Dr Walker's interview with Sharlene about building Indica Hemp House here.
Comments attributable to the Mavors:
Paul Mavor: “Roger Cook may feel secure in his Kwinana electorate, but I want to bring home to him just how many cannabis users, both medicinal and recreational, call his electorate home, and demand that he stands up for their right to affordable medical care, and an end to the unfounded discrimination many patients face on our roads and at work.”
Sharlene Mavor: “Dawesville is a marginal seat for Labor, and I’m far from convinced that the sitting member, Lisa Mundy, hasn't done enough – indeed anything – to support patients, either in her own electorate or across the state. The government needs to start listening to the science when it comes to cannabis, something they’ve been too cloth-eared, or too arrogant to do over recent years. That ends now, with this election campaign. If Lisa isn’t willing to step up, then I’ll do everything in my power to ensure that she becomes a single-term MP.”
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