Even though the production of cannabis in Tasmania is good, patients are finding it hard to access medications, and therefore turning to the black market or growing their own to help with medical issues.
Tasmanian Alkaloids’ have opened up a new medicinal cannabis facility in the central-north region of Tasmania. It will cultivate, extract, and create medical cannabis medications, with up to 90 tonnes each year.
Tasmania’s Controlled Access Scheme has only approved 36 applications for medicinal cannabis prescriptions, compared to 56,000 applications on the mainland.
The National Drug Strategy Household Survey is held every three years and past data has shown that Aussies are generally not in favour in legalising cannabis. However, this is the first year that the results have favoured legalising the drug.
Unlike the majority of cannabis cultivation sites, an undisclosed location in Victoria is now growing cannabis naturally on an outdoor site. This could help provide affordable medicine for those in desperate need.
Drug traffickers are finding new ways to smuggle in cannabis to remote communities in the Northern Territory, Australia. Police have now found frozen chickens, with hidden cannabis inside.
Whilst police in Far North Queensland were raiding a large cannabis grow room, they heard something moving in some nearby leaves. Turns out there was a python ‘guarding’ the grow room!
Organised Crime Squad officers in Western Australia have sent a warning for landlords to keep a close eye on their rental properties after 265 cannabis plants were found in a rental property in of two Geraldton houses.
Cannabis in a tablet form has arrived in Australia. Queensland medicinal cannabis wafers are becoming available to certain patients. Read about the benefits of this technology.
A man in regional NSW has been charged after over $6 million dollars’ worth of cannabis plants were found growing on his remote property in Tindarey. This is the largest outdoor cultivation site found growing in NSW since 2017.
Four men were in court this week for their involvement in cannabis smuggling and money laundering. The drugs were discovered by a Joint Organised Crime Task Force (JOCTF) in the Northern Territory.
A major drug smuggling and money laundering operation has been discovered by police, after they were alerted to questionable electronic money transfers via Darwin to Indonesia. Six men have now been charged.
Although still illegal at the federal level, residents of the Australian Capital Territory will not have a criminal offence, or even be fined for using cannabis up to 50 grams. They can also grow up to two plants per person.
Police in Carrara on the Gold Coast, have found a sophisticated grow house, situated behind a stell door, underneath the property. Over 100 hydroponic plants were seized, alongside other illegal drugs.
Guiseppe Romeo, 65, has been sentenced in Darwin after admitting to being the man in charge of a $1.8 million drug distribution ring between South Australia and Darwin.
Medicinal cannabis has now been approved in the Northern Territory and now the first patient has filled out their script to receive the medication. So, far, no one has had a prescription for medical cannabis in the NT.
Now that the first clinic allowing for medical prescriptions for cannabis has opened up in Perth, people are wondering how to go about getting it. This article explains the most common questions.
The standard medical advice for using medicinal cannabis it to wait five days before driving, but some patients are deciding to drive under the influence illegally and take the risk of punishment.
The laws passed the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly, which will now allow residents possession of cannabis up to 50 grams per person and to legally grow two plants per person, or four per household.
The Australian Capital Territory has become the first jurisdiction within Australia to legalise cannabis for recreational use and the growing of cannabis in people’s homes, after an historic bill passed through assembly by the Labour party.
The medicinal cannabis industry in South Australia could be set to take off with a new manufacturing facility for medicinal cannabis being planned to create 1000 jobs in Adelaide.
Cannatrek, an Australian medicinal cannabis company, has plans to develop a $160 million plantation near Shepparton, VIC. It is predicted to produce 160 tonnes of medicinal cannabis each year in Victoria.
Economist Rolf Gerritsen believes cannabis could lead to revenues in the Northern Territory from tourism, taxes, and horticulture. He believes the legalisation of cannabis could lead to ‘big bucks’.
More and more Australian clinics are opening up across the country, with doctors prescribing patients with medical cannabis. These new medicines are helping people with debilitating illnesses and chronic pain.
Kerrie-Ann Trembath Forster has lived with excruciating chronic pain for years and says doctors need to be more willing to prescribe medical cannabis to patients. The medicinal cannabis scheme in Canberra is struggling to find doctors keen to prescribe drug.
Investment strategist Mark Bernberg says Australia is throwing away billions of dollars of possible tax revenue from cannabis being legalised, and questions why it is not being tackled on the election campaign.
Watch this short clip of a cannabis farm near Leyburn, south-west of Toowoomba in Queensland, as police find over $5 million worth of cannabis plants on the property.
A grandmother from Darwin, amongst others, has been jailed after she confessed to selling 45kg of marijuana. The drugs seizure is said to have been worth $400,000 in value.
Western Australian Police have seized 7500 illegal cannabis plants from a property in Red Gully, around 140km north of Perth. The police investigation is ongoing, and they have not yet found the persons responsible.
The cannabis industry for medicinal use is growing at a fast pace. Brisbane City Council recently approved a site for growing cannabis, but local residents were not informed, even though the site is close to a school and playground.
