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This week the federal government granted its first license for an Australian company to grow and harvest medical marijuana. This follows Australia's amending of the Narcotic Drugs Act 1967 to legalise the production and use of cannabis for medicinal purposes. The amendment came in February...

Access to medicinal cannabis has taken another major step forward today with first licence being granted for an Australian company to grow and harvest medicinal cannabis. This major development will lead to improved access to domestically produced medicinal cannabis products for Australian...

LUSAKA - Zambia could be on its path to start cultivation of marijuana for medicinal purposes following revelation by the government that the country's laws allow this. Minister of Home Affairs Stephen Kampyongo said cultivation of marijuana for medicinal purpose was allowed but those...

Cork mum Vera Twomey has embarked on a second 155 mile walk from Cork to Dublin in a bid to get Health Minister Simon Harris to allow her daughter access medicinal cannabis. Vera's seven-year-old daughter Ava Barry has a drug-resistant form of epilepsy called Dravet Syndrome which can cause her...

Twenty-five companies have applied for licences to grow and manufacture medicinal cannabis in Australia. Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt announced today medical marijuana could be easier to import to Australia, if requested through a doctor, by fast-tracking importation while local supplies...

In what the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) considers a major achievement after championing the legalisation of cannabis through its late MP Mario Oriani-Ambrosini who died of lung cancer in 2014, the same year he introduced a bill in Parliament seeking for the legalisation of cannabis for medicinal...

Medicinal marijuana will be more widely available in Australia within eight weeks, after the health minister fast-tracked importation of cannabis by approved providers. The health minister, Greg Hunt, announced on Wednesday that the government will authorise importation by international...

Currently, the medication is sourced from overseas on a case-by-case basis, a system involving delays. The move will make it easier for patients who now must wait for the product to be imported once prescribed an authorised doctor. Australia is now growing its own crops of cannabis for...

THE Andrews Government has harvested Australia's first medical cannabis crop. - Canberra has also given the green light for a commercial company to also start growing plants. The cannabis, planted at a -secret site last April, will be -reserved for children with -severe epilepsy this year...

The federal government has issued the first licence under its new regulatory system for medicinal cannabis use in Australia. The research licence, issued by the Office of Drug Control (ODC) to Melbourne-based Cann Group subsidiary Cannoperations, allows the Cann Group to legally cultivate...

Lucy Haslam is a Tamworth advocate and mother who has campaigned for the legalisation of medical cannabis after her son, Dan, was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Dan passed away in 2015, but his story sparked a national conversation about medicinal cannabis use. Mrs Haslam penned this letter...

San Juan — The House of Representatives approved Monday to investigate the legality behind the Health Department's ruling that regulates the industry of medicinal cannabis, established via executive order by then-Gov. Alejandro García Padilla. New Progressive Party (NPP) Rep. María Milagros...

Zambian top medical personnel Aaron Mujajati has come off the woods to launch a campaign for medicinal marijuana. Marijuana, commonly known as chamba or ibange in two of Zambia's widely spoken local languages, has been known for wrong reasons. However, Dr Mujajati's comment is set to open...

Peru's government says it will present to the opposition-dominated legislature a plan to legalize the medical use of marijuana "for the treatment of serious and terminal illnesses." President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski's administration said Wednesday the plan was developed after police raided a...

A county councillor from Portlaoise has spoken frankly about coping with Parkinson's disease, after his call to legalise medicinal cannabis was passed at Laois County Council. Labour Cllr Noel Tuohy, father of Aussie Rules pro player Zach Tuohy, has a milder form of Parkinson's. "My type...

Seriously ill patients seeking medicinal cannabis to ease their symptoms will no longer have to take their cause right the way to the top, but access to the drugs will remain tightly controlled. From today, authority to approve applications for non-pharmaceutical grade medicinal cannabis...

Supporters of legalising medicinal cannabis are holding a rally at Parliament today in a bid to make it an election issue. A group is gathering on Parliament's front lawn this afternoon, just before Parliament sits for the first time this year. The campaigners want greater access to...

An Afghanistan veteran with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PSTD) wants medicinal cannabis to be recognised as an effective and legal treatment for his condition. Lawnton's Michael Harding said he was medically discharged from the Royal Australian Army with PTSD and conversion disorder in...

Some of Australia's most high-profile medicinal cannabis advocates have banded together to launch a new campaign for better access to the drug. Federal legislation passed last year was supposed to give patients access to cannabis for medicinal use but Lucy Haslam and Barry Lambert said it was...

Bundaberg's One Nation candidate says it's time to make medicinal marijuana available to those in need and she will will advocate for ready and affordable access to the drug, if elected to the seat of Bundaberg. Dr Jane Truscott said the drug had been shown to be effective in providing relief...