About Can I Drive — Who We Are and Why This Site Exists

About this site

What this site is. Can I Drive is an independent Australian publisher covering one narrow subject: what a medicinal cannabis prescription means for your driver licence. We cover all eight jurisdictions separately, because drug-driving law in Australia is state law and the answer genuinely differs depending on which side of a border you are on.

Why it exists. A prescription authorises possession and use of the medicine that was dispensed to you. It does not, on its own, authorise anything else — and in most Australian states it is not a defence to a drug-driving charge. That gap between what patients reasonably assume and what the law actually says is where people lose their licences. The information needed to understand it already exists, but it is scattered across eight state government sites, transport authority pages, legislation databases and law firm blogs, each written for a different reader. We put it in one place, per state, in plain English.

What we are not. We are not a law firm, a medical practice, a clinic, a telehealth service, a pharmacy, or a supplier of any product. We do not provide legal advice and we do not provide medical advice. We cannot comment on your individual case. If you have been charged, you need a lawyer, and our state pages list firms that practise in this area.

Who runs it

Can I Drive is published by a small independent operation based in Queensland. Pages about the law are written by the publisher and are attributed to the organisation rather than to an individual. That is a deliberate choice: the person who runs this site is not a lawyer, and putting a personal byline on a page about criminal traffic law would imply an authority that does not exist. Where a page has been checked by an independent professional, that person is named and their registration is linked so you can confirm it yourself.

How our information is produced

Every page covering the law is drafted from primary sources — the actual Acts, bills, parliamentary records and official government publications — not from other people's summaries. Each page carries a "last verified" date showing when it was last checked against those sources. We re-check pages on a rolling schedule, and immediately when a relevant bill, judgment or government announcement changes the position.

Where the law is clear, we say so. Where a rule exists but has not been tested in a court, we say that too. Where there is no rule at all yet, we say that rather than filling the space with a guess. Our editorial policy sets out the process in full.

How we are funded

This site is funded by advertising and sponsorship — clearly marked placements from law firms and other businesses — and by affiliate links that are disclosed on the page where they appear. Advertisers have no input into our legal content, no advance sight of it, and no ability to have a page changed or removed. Nothing on this site is written to suit a sponsor.

We do not advertise, promote or recommend medicinal cannabis products, brands, clinics or prescription services. Australian therapeutic goods law prohibits advertising prescription medicines to the public, and we consider that a sensible rule rather than an obstacle.

What we will never publish

We do not publish material about avoiding, masking or timing around drug tests. We do not tell readers when it is "safe" to drive after taking a medicine — no general resource can responsibly make that call about a specific person, and any site that does is a site to distrust. We do not publish patient testimonials or reviews, which is both a legal requirement and, on this subject, the right call.

Corrections

If something here is wrong, we want to know, and we would rather publish a correction than defend an error. Report an error or contact us and we will respond within two business days.