Australia: Pharmacy sets sights on medical marijuana business

A TABLELANDS pharmacy is preparing to become one of the first medical marijuana ­dispensaries in Queensland should the drug be legalised in Australia.

Yungaburra Pharmacy co-owner Mark Hope has spent thousands of dollars on buying online domain names such as medicalweed.com.au and meed.com.au to start selling the herb should it be decriminalised for use by the terminally ill, chronic pain sufferers and those with drug-resistant epilepsy.

Queensland is partnering with New South Wales to start trials with the drug next year, with Federal Health Minister Sussan Ley suggesting a medical marijuana industry could flourish in Australia.

Mr Hope, who with his pharmacist wife visited California in 2009, saw the benefits of the drug medically and commercially.

“The way that we see it, it is for epileptics, for people who are dying of cancers and things like that, to prevent pain, and for chronic pain sufferers,’’ he said.

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