Cannabis research centre to open in NSW

NSW is leading the world with its $12 million medicinal cannabis research centre, Premier Mike Baird says.

THE Centre for Medicinal Cannabis Research and Innovation will be headed up by NSW chief scientist Mary O'Kane.

It will seek to enable experts to share their world-class research and support the production of safe, reliable and affordable cannabis based medicines.

"All of us have been moved by the stories we have seen, people who are suffering in all types of situations and circumstances and there is clear anecdotal evidence medical cannabis is making a difference," he said outside Blacktown Hospital on Sunday.

"We have said let's get the best minds in the country working on this and that's what the NSW Centre of Medical Cannabis will do.

"It is clear that NSW is leading not only the nation, the Asia Pacific and indeed the world in this."

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