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An Australian company is about to start growing and exporting medicinal cannabis from the self-governing Australian territory of Norfolk Island.
AusCann Group Holdings has struck a landmark deal with the Norfolk Island government to grow a high-grade medicinal strain of cannabis from November. It intends to export its entire first crop to Canada by the middle of next year.
An initial one tonne of cannabis will be grown from a protected two-hectare site with production forecast to increase to 10 tonnes by 2018.
It will supply the sativa and sativa-dominant strains, which are unsuitable for growing in Canada’s indoor facilities.
“This Australian-first project has the full support of the Norfolk Island community and is expected to generate much-needed revenues via an export fee and employment,” the managing director of AusCann, Elaine Darby, said on Wednesday.
The deal comes barely a week after the Australian government passed...
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