Episode 68: Karma Koala Podcast 275: Melanie Wentzel Presentation @ Sydney Law School, “Prowling Tigress: A she-cosystem of underutilised power & a paucity of political champions”

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International Cannabis Symposium 2025 Australia’s Role in Reforming the UN Drug Conventions to Allow for Cannabis Regulation November 21, 2025 | University of Sydney, Australia

Melanie Wentzel – Prowling Tigress: A she-cosystem of underutilised power & a paucity of political champions

The unmet potential of women in cannabis policy. Women lead cannabis advocacy globally, prowling at the edges of cannabis policy, marking our territory (storytelling), protecting our cubs (advocacy), and establishing territory (with social influence) – but rarely deliver the final strike in the hunt for policy reform. The great prowl does matter but only goes so far without the final strike. Policy reform requires political positioning, where women are underrepresented especially in the cannabis agenda – this too needs to change. It is time for the hungry-for-change prowlers and cannabis’s political champions to assemble and rise. It is time for political champions to recognise the unique and untapped power of women’s groups; and for women’s groups to raise their gaze, organise, and make more strategic political advances. We must hunt as one.

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