Laws to legalise medicinal marijuana in Queensland will be introduced to Parliament today, a day after a child who was given cannabis oil illegally by her father died from cancer.

Health Minister Cameron Dick will introduce the Public Health (Medicinal Cannabis) Bill 2016, which he said would create the most progressive laws in Australia and set up a robust framework to ensure it was prescribed safely.

He said more than 1,000 people responded in an online survey to the draft bill, with 96 per cent in favour of cannabis being used for treatment.

"Queenslanders have sent us a strong message — we have listened, and by presenting this bill to Parliament we are moving towards delivering for them," he said.

Earlier this month, the Federal Government introduced legislation to allow for the cultivation of medicinal cannabis in Australia.

New South Wales has already established a medicinal marijuana scheme for patients with a terminal illness.

It requires patients over the age of 18 to register for the scheme, with the support of a medical doctor.

Mr Dick said legalising medicinal cannabis would not allow anyone to just grow their own cannabis.

"It's important we acknowledge that medicinal cannabis is a dangerous drug and should be regulated properly," he said.

"Clinicians need to balance effective treatment by any drug — and its ability to relieve symptoms — with potential side effects."

Cancer-stricken child dies in hospital after 'monumental battle'

A girl at the centre of a debate over the merits of cannabis oil died at her home in far north Queensland on Monday.

Adam Koessler was fined $500 and given a two-year good behaviour bond in a Brisbane court in March after pleading guilty to supplying his young daughter, Rumer Rose, with a dangerous drug.

Adam Koessler with his daughter Rumer Rose in hospital. ( Facebook )

The little girl could not be named at the time for legal reasons.

Rumer was diagnosed with neroblastoma, a rare form of cancer, in 2014.

The court heard Mr Koessler had researched the benefits of medicinal cannabis on the internet, and sourced the drug from northern New South Wales and the United States.

He cooked her food in cannabis oil and put the oil into chocolate.

The girl was in Brisbane's Lady Cilento Children's Hospital at Christmas when she ate the food, and her father wrote in text messages of the drug's success in calming her and giving her an appetite, where she had previously not had one.

The court heard he had wanted chemotherapy delayed while she had the cannabis oil.

Mr Koessler wrote on Facebook that Rumer passed away in her sleep at her home in Cairns on Monday morning, just weeks before her fourth birthday.

He said his daughter had a "monumental battle to fight" and that the "love the little girl had generated around the world had been a phenomenal force".