Kevin Anderson – the unlikely cannabis crusader

By Harriet Alexander
Updated September 22 2014 - 1:13am, first published 12:15am
Champion of the cause: Kevin Anderson sought approval from Mike Baird for his Private Member's Bill.
Champion of the cause: Kevin Anderson sought approval from Mike Baird for his Private Member's Bill.
Champion of the cause: Kevin Anderson sought approval from Mike Baird for his Private Member's Bill.
Champion of the cause: Kevin Anderson sought approval from Mike Baird for his Private Member's Bill.
Champion of the cause: Kevin Anderson sought approval from Mike Baird for his Private Member's Bill.
Champion of the cause: Kevin Anderson sought approval from Mike Baird for his Private Member's Bill.
Champion of the cause: Kevin Anderson sought approval from Mike Baird for his Private Member's Bill.
Champion of the cause: Kevin Anderson sought approval from Mike Baird for his Private Member's Bill.

Family man and conservative politician Kevin Anderson is an unlikely crusader for medicinal cannabis. And the country music capital of Australia was an unlikely place for the grassroots movement to take hold.