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Fear In Australia: New Laws Will Kill Cannabis Research

Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 08/11/2016 - 12:42

The fight for access to cannabis medicine means a lot to Barry Lambert. His granddaughter suffers from a severe form of epilepsy. That is why this retired financial billionaire donated $33.7 million dollars to Sydney University. But his generosity might be money down the drain as Australian law looks to change.

Grow laws will kill research & the industry

Imagine the cost of bread and resultant social unrest if we had to grow wheat in a glass house because someone might use it to make alcohol.

Mr. Lambert compares what is happening with the law right now to wheat. And he’s right. The current supplier of cannabis oil for the research in Sydney is Ecofibre. Their low THC cannabis under the new law will be classified as industrial hemp. Medical cannabis, on the other hand, will have to be grown in glass greenhouses, separate from the industrial crop.

The government announced...

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