Medicinal cannabis planting roots in Australia
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Medically-prescribed doses of the drug, which otherwise will remain illegal, will be used to ease the condition of the terminally ill suffering pain, nausea and vomiting. The doses also will help children with drug-resistant epilepsy.
And it will be used to treat patients fighting cancer who have to deal with nausea and vomiting from chemotherapy.
Medicinal cannabis is legal, but has to be imported. For the first time it will be domestically grown with strict safeguarding of standards and the cultivation. And it will be a bipartisan effort.
Tonight, the Opposition pledged “safe, reliable and legal medicinal cannabis if prescribed by their doctor” under a Labor government.
And tomorrow the Federal and NSW governments are expected to announce...
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