FactCheck Q&A: can medicinal cannabis oil be imported into Australia?

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Excerpt from Q&A, October 26, 2015.

RHONDA MILES: Our 15 year old epileptic son Lachlan has been on life support seven times. He has been hospitalised 95 times in the last four and a half years… We welcome the Federal Health Minister’s moves last week in her announcement that she will set up a farm to pharmacy medical cannabis production system in Australia by 2018. That doesn’t help my son now. Why can’t we import through the special access scheme and TGA, quality-controlled medical cannabis oil from overseas now?

FIONA NASH: … The special access scheme that exists, if there is a clinician that wishes to bring in a product that is not on the register of therapeutic goods, the capacity does exist to do that. – Minister for Rural Health, Fiona Nash, speaking on Q&A on October 26, 2015.

Minister Nash is correct.

It is possible to...

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