Getting around
Flying interstate with prescribed medicine, vaporisers on planes, the drive to the airport, and what changes at the border when you leave.
Flying is the question this section gets most: whether prescribed medicine can go in carry-on, what screening staff are actually checking for, and why the vaporiser raises a different question from the medicine itself. The drive to the airport is here too — pointed at the site that covers driving law properly, because a summary of eight jurisdictions would age badly.
3 of 3 pages here are checked against the legislation they describe; the rest each say so on their face.
Every page in this section
- Can I fly interstate with my prescribed medicinal cannabis?The law is settled
Yes, and no Commonwealth approval, permit or notification exists for it — because the Commonwealth does not regulate you carrying it. It regulates your prescriber's authority to su
- Can I take my vaporiser in my luggage?Clear law, contested application
It is a battery question, not a drug question, and the answer is not in Australian law at all. Part 92 of the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 hands the actual rule to the IC
- Can I drive to the airport after taking my medicine?Covered on a sibling site, not here
Of everything in a trip — the packing, the screening, the flight — the drive is where prescribed patients actually come unstuck. It is also the one subject this site does not cover
Status: not yet checked against primary sources — general information, not legal advice