Cannabis industry's economic benefits for South Australia to be explored at roundtable
A roundtable to examine the potential to establish industrial hemp and medicinal cannabis industries in South Australia will be held at the end of the month.
It comes only months after the Federal Government changed the law to allow the controlled cultivation of cannabis for medicinal and scientific purposes, and just weeks after an Adelaide woman who was supplying cannabis oil products to terminally ill people had her property raided.
Unlike in some other states, it is illegal to grow hemp plants in South Australia and nationally medicinal cannabis can only be grown with a licence.
South Australia's Manufacturing Minister Kyam Maher said the meeting was "about creating an industry".
He said industry groups and companies looking to make things like building products, clothing, textiles and skin care products had been invited.
"We want to look at what barriers we can remove to the industry and then it will...
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