The Government intends to amend the Narcotic Drugs Act to allow cannabis to be grown for medicine or science and ensure that Australia is not in breach of international drug treaties.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-17/federal-government-to-legalise-growing-of-medicinal-cannabis/6862294
mollwollfumble said:
http://tokyo3.org/forums/holiday/topics/6590/
This required the Feds to legislate.. which is what my link is about.
The message about consistent laws across Australia is enlightening
from the link
Ms Ley said the legalisation was only about medicinal cannabis, not recreational use.
“This is not a debate about legalisation of cannabis. This is not about drugs. This is not a product you smoke. This has nothing to do with that,” she said.
“Most commonly the product is an oil or a tincture that you put on your skin.”
Overseas pharmaceutical companies have cannabis derived tablets and mouth sprays available
“I hope that medicinal cannabis will be provided from within Australia. I think there’s great scope for the development of a new industry,” she said.
yes, and with so many cannabinoids in cannabis that are poorly known about, this should improve once research gets started
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabinoid
scroll down to types
There are at least 84 other cannabinoids in Cannabis
and around 400 other compounds
That will keep the researchers busy for years
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_(drug)
Cannabis, also known as marijuana and by numerous other names,a is a preparation of the Cannabis plant intended for use as a psychoactive drug or medicine. The main psychoactive part of cannabis is tetrahydrocannabinol (THC); it is one of 483 known compounds in the plant, including at least 84 other cannabinoids, such as cannabidiol (CBD), cannabinol (CBN), and tetrahydrocannabivarin (THCV).
Company planning to export medicinal cannabis welcomes move to legalise growing
The chairman of an Australian company that plans to grow and export cannabis has welcomed the Federal Government’s plan to legalise the cultivation of the drug for medicinal purposes, saying it opens the door for the venture to go ahead.
Former Liberal MP Mal Washer heads up the company AusCann, which plans to grow cannabis on the self-governed Norfolk Island and export it to an international market.
Earlier this year the company was granted production approval but it was later overturned by the island’s administrator who had concerns about the lack of a regulating body to oversee the project.
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The Australian Medical Association’s Tim Greenaway said more trials were needed on medicinal cannabis.
“Whilst we acknowledge the benefit, therapeutically, of medicinal cannabis we do know that there are problems with the different alkaloids that are contained within the cannabis plant.
“The effect the alkaloids have on individuals and the body are not clearly understood.
“We do need more information on how medicinal cannabis works and the effects on the body.
“It’s not a one hat fits all scenario.”
Peter Skillern, the chief executive of the Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association, said Canada’s medicinal cannabis industry was made up of relatively small crops.
“I think we have to look at the Canadian experience that for the whole country,” he said.
“Most of their medicinal cannabis is grown within a relatively small area – something in the order of three to five hectares.
“So growing medicinal cannabis in Australia is not going to produce a new agricultural product for Tasmania, or Australian farmers for that matter.”
Given the small area of cultivation needed, he said it was likely Australia would also have only one medicinal cannabis crop and that farmers may not be the ones growing it.
“It would make perfect sense. In other words, you can put it all in one place,” he said.
“All your security costs are restricted to one place and arguably it won’t be grown by farmers — it’ll be grown by lab technicians and the like.”
The Tasmanian Industrial Hemp Association wants the approval for industrial hemp to be grown for food to take priority over the legalisation of medicinal cannabis.
roughbarked said:
The Tasmanian Industrial Hemp Association wants the approval for industrial hemp to be grown for food to take priority over the legalisation of medicinal cannabis.
the variety of cannabis used as hemp does not have lot of THC in it
So Ive heard
so they should not have too many problems once the variety is known that does not have lot of THC in it
it would require some regulation
Ill put this here too
Medical Cannabis is not a product you smoke
Patients using medicinal marijuana do not smoke it, it is applied on the skin as an oil or taken as a tincture
recreational cannabis is the same at it ever was
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-06/locally-grown-marijuana-to-be-legalised-in-victoria-medical/6830892
Medicinal cannabis should be available in a variety of forms, including tinctures, oils, capsules, sprays and vaporisable liquids, but should not be smoked because of the health dangers, the commission said.
and
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-17/federal-government-to-legalise-growing-of-medicinal-cannabis/6862294
Ms Ley said the legalisation was only about medicinal cannabis, not recreational use.
“This is not a debate about legalisation of cannabis. This is not about drugs. This is not a product you smoke. This has nothing to do with that,” she said.
“Most commonly the product is an oil or a tincture that you put on your skin.”
A farmer is trialing opium poppies in Ballarat
Fourth generation Ballarat potato farmer, Con Powell, has trial crops on his property.
from
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-22/tasmania-vows-to-fight-to-keep-poppy-monopoly/5273638
demand is growing for both opium and cannabis
I would like to see farmers growing more cannabis for overseas demand