Investors lining up to make Canberra the cannabis capital

Curus Medical director Andrew McCrea with his wife Jane, who suffers from a debilitating muscle condition. Curus hopes to establish a legal cannabis industry in the ACT.

Investors have begun sizing up Canberra as a likely base for a multimillion dollar medical cannabis industry they believe could be up and running within six months of getting the green light from the ACT government.

States and territories across Australia are currently reviewing their cannabis laws following a wave of public interest in the issue, spurred on in part by major private donations to research into the medical potential of the drug and a growing list of countries now operating large-scale medical cannabis programs.

An ACT Legislative Assembly committee is due to report in the coming weeks on a Greens Bill that if passed would allow sufferers of a number of conditions to grow a limited number of plants in their homes...

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