Australia: NSW Government Applies for Medicinal Cannabis Cultivation Licence
The New South Wales Government has applied for a licence to grow cannabis for medical research trials.
Minister for Primary Industries Niall Blair said the state's cultivation licence application was lodged with the Federal Government last week.
Earlier this year, the Federal Parliament passed legislation to make the cultivation of medicinal cannabis legal — with a licence.
The NSW Government is running clinical trials for severe childhood epilepsy, terminal illnesses and chemotherapy-induced nausea.
It has been required to import the cannabis-based drugs from Canadian and British pharmaceutical companies, but Mr Blair said there may be a need to grow cannabis locally.
"We might even have to start the cultivation ourselves, as a Government, on DPI [Department of Primary Industries] sites, so that we can progress this as quickly as we can."
Tamworth-based medicinal cannabis campaigner Lucy Haslam also intends to apply for a licence and has purchased a property...
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