Australia: Medical cannabis business 'told to set up elsewhere'
UPDATED: The State Government has denied a medical marijuana entrepreneur's claims that Investment Attraction South Australia staff advised him to set up business in a different state.
Australian Cannabis Corporation co-founder Ben Fitzsimons posted to Facebook yesterday complaining that the State Government had “told us twice to go do business interstate”.
But a State Government spokesperson told InDaily after the publication of this article that Investment Attraction South Australia has been “working with Australian Cannabis Corporation in our stat and at no time have told them they should look interstate”.
The Government threw its weight behind the development of a medical cannabis industry for South Australia earlier this year, saying it would assist licensed medicinal cannabis businesses operating in South Australia to lobby the Commonwealth Government for export permits.
But Fitzsimons told his social media followers yesterday: “We have been working on bringing a $300,000,000 plus industry to South Australia that will employ more people than GMH”....
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