About Know Your Script
Who publishes this
Know Your Script is an independent Australian publisher. It covers one narrow subject: what a medicinal cannabis prescription means for the rest of your life beyond your health — tenancy, insurance, travel, disclosure, parenting and the other everyday situations where a prescription raises a legal question.
It is not a clinic, a pharmacy, a telehealth service, a producer or a comparison site. It does not arrange access to any medicine, and it has no commercial relationship with anyone who supplies one.
The publisher also owns other Australian websites covering road law and workplace law. Where a page here links to one of them, the link is disclosed on the page. We mention it because a reader is entitled to know who is talking to them, and because we would rather say it than have it discovered.
Why this site exists
A prescription authorises possession and use of the medicine dispensed to you and nothing else. It is not a tenancy defence, not a firearms-licence exemption, not an automatic right to travel with your medication and not an answer to a bank query about your income source. The information needed to understand where you stand already exists, but it is scattered across government sites, legislation, regulator guidance, tribunal decisions and practitioner advice — each written for a different reader and none written for yours. We put it in one place, per situation, in plain English.
How our information is produced
Every page covering the law is drafted from primary sources — Acts, regulations, tribunal decisions and official government publications — not from summaries written by other people. Our editorial policy sets out the process in full.
Every page starts unchecked and says so. An unchecked page carries a notice at the top and a status line at the foot stating that nobody has yet opened the instruments and confirmed it, and it emits no publication date and no reviewer in its structured data, because it has earned neither. We publish unchecked pages rather than hiding them because a page nobody can find is a page nobody reviews — and the reviewer model depends on practitioners finding the work.
A page becomes checked only when someone has read every legal statement on it against the instruments it claims to rely on. That work is recorded as a date and shown on the page. There are two kinds of check — publisher-checked and practitioner-checked — and every page tells you which one it got.
How we are funded
We are paid referral fees for introducing readers to professionals — lawyers, insurance brokers and similar. We are paid a flat fee for the introduction itself, not per outcome, and we take no share of what you pay anyone we refer you to. How we are funded lays out the model in full, including what we refuse to sell and why.
What we will never publish
We do not publish anything about the medicine itself: no product names, no brands, no strengths or doses, no claims that any medicine helps a condition, no information about obtaining a prescription and no patient testimonials. Australian law prohibits advertising prescription-only medicines to the public, and the prohibition is drawn broadly enough to catch indirect promotion. A site that drifts into product territory stops being lawful at the same moment it stops being useful.
We do not publish reviews, star ratings or comparisons that imply one professional is better than another. Where we list a firm, the listing records that they pay to appear and nothing more. A referral is never a recommendation.
We do not tell readers how to avoid, mask or time around a test, a declaration or a background check.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, we want to know. If you are a professional who has reviewed a page and found an error, contact us and we will correct it and credit you. If you are a reader who has spotted something that does not hold up against its source, tell us. We would rather publish a correction than defend a mistake.
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