Phil Warner says that one of the big selling points about his cannabis is that you would have to smoke a "telegraph pole-sized joint" to get high.
Warner is proud of the weakness of his cannabis because it promises an answer to one of the big issues facing the nascent medicinal cannabis industry: how to stop cannabis grown for legal medicinal purposes being diverted into the illicit recreational market.
In North America and Europe, where legalisation is well ahead of Australia, producers source their medicinal cannabis from smokeable marijuana plants. In order to prevent criminals stealing their crops, farmers spend huge sums ringing their fields with high electrified fences and 24-hour security cameras and store their harvest in concrete bunkers.
But Warner, a former filmmaker who founded a company called Ecofibre Industries Operations almost two decade ago, grows "industrial hemp" cannabis plants. He started breeding them two decades
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