Opinion Divided on Medicinal Marijuana as Cash Crop for Australian Farmers
A prominent Australian medical authority doubts medicinal marijuana will be the cash crop of the future for farmers due it's limited "utility" in clinical medicine.
Advocates for the use of medicinal marijuana have meanwhile applauded recent Commonwealth legislative changes which now allow individuals and companies to apply and, if successful, grow limited amounts of the plant for medicinal purposes.
Guidelines set out by the Australian Government's Office of Drug Control state there is no limit to the number of medicinal cannabis licences that can exist but all applicants must first obtain a cannabis research licence and permit.
That permit determines how much and what type of medicinal marijuana crop can be grown.
Applicants must also first be deemed "Fit and proper" and will be mandatorily excluded if convicted of a serious offence in the past 10 years.
Divide of economic prospects for farmers
Former WA Liberal MP Mal Washer, who...
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