Cannabis news

Want to know the latest talk about cannabis in the mainstream media? This page keeps a record of coverage starting March 2024, just scroll down.

Tasmania to green light cannabis farming, Capital Mining in deal for first licence - Sydney Morning Herald

17 April 2024 - Tasmania is set to give the green light for Australia's first legal medical marijuana grower, in what is expected to be the start of a new industry for the state. Capital Mining, a failed explorer with a plan to transform itself as the second ASX ...

Is Australia ready for medical marijuana? Source: AP - NEWS.com.au

23 March 2024 - The legislative assembly is currently holding an inquiry into a bill containing a medical marijuana scheme proposed by minister Shane Rattenbury which is due to be ruled on by June 2024. In the latest move by the minister, he has outlined a plan that ...

Australia's first medical marijuana company will kick off its 'farm to pharma ... - Business Insider Australia

24 March 2024 - Australian-owned medical marijuana company Phytotech has merged with MMJ Bioscience in an effort to expand from cultivating cannabis to developing and distributing it in pill form. Phytotech will acquire 100% of the issued capital of Canadian company ...

Controversial anti-drugs group opposes medical marijuana plan - The Canberra Times

30 March 2024 - Drug Free Australia representatives Gary Christian and Ross Colquhoun are scheduled to give evidence on Tuesday to a public hearing considering a medical cannabis scheme proposed by Greens Minister Shane Rattenbury. The lobby group's 125-page ...

Medical cannabis proposal in ACT would cost health directorate too much: chief ... - ABC Online

09 April 2024 - A proposal to allow the use of medical marijuana in the ACT would be a "large drain" on the health directorate's resources, according to the Territory's top doctor. Greens MLA Shane Rattenbury has proposed legislation to make cannabis available to ...

'Conservative warlord' Barry O'Sullivan backs medical cannabis - Sydney Morning Herald

05 April 2024 - In Sydney on Tuesday, Lucy Haslam, the mother of the late medical marijuana campaigner Dan Haslam, criticised the NSW government for moving too slowly to provide sick people with access to the drug. "We cannot afford to wait for the results of clinical ...

New CEO of cannabis group Michael Sautman wants Australia to legalise it - Sydney Morning Herald

19 March 2024 - "I look forward to working with a range of regulators, legislators, scientists and medical practitioners to help develop a framework for the medical cannabis industry to operate in Australia. ... Capital Mining, which unveiled a plan to reinvent itself ...

GST stoush: Colin Barnett accuses other state premiers of 'ganging up' on WA - The Age

17 April 2024 - State premiers have called for Western Australia to move on from its bid to change the way the GST is distributed as a defiant WA Premier Colin Barnett arrived in Canberra urging a "complete overhaul" of GST arrangements. All the state and territory ...

Parents pin hopes on medical cannabis trial for children with epilepsy - Sydney Morning Herald

23 March 2024 - On a bad day, four-year-old Bethany Edwards sleeps for more than 18 hours, has trouble holding a fork and finds it hard to walk without falling over or bumping into things. Bethany was 18 months old when she was first diagnosed with epilepsy. Now four ...

Australian Medical Association warns of cannabis risk from Greens plan - The Canberra Times

31 March 2024 - Giving evidence at a public hearing on Tuesday, ACT association branch president Elizabeth Gallagher rejected a proposal from Greens Minister Shane Rattenbury for medical cannabis, describing it as "too ad hoc" and without strict enough regulation to ...