Graham Irvine is a Sessional Lecturer in Law and Justice at Southern Cross University, Lismore, having practised as a solicitor in NSW and Queensland. His background includes radio journalism and documentary production for ABC Radio. He has lived on an intentional community outside Nimbin for 35 years.

Graham is one of the few people who have managed to negotiate the medical minefield here in Australia to get prescription Sativex for his Parkinsons. It was too expensive, and not as effective as the plant material.