Meet the woman leading Australia’s medicinal cannabis research

In Australia, the study of cannabis for medical purposes is relatively young. In fact, a recent study on children with cancer receiving palliative care and the ways medicinal cannabis can play a role in alleviating their suffering, done by the University of Technology in Queensland, became the first time such an investigation took place in Australia […]

Australia’s biggest medicinal cannabis plant to be built in secret Melbourne location

Australia’s biggest medicinal cannabis extraction and contract manufacturing plant will be built at a secret location in Melbourne’s south-east in a $50 million project aiming to help the local industry become more self-sufficient.   The facility will be owned, funded and operated by The Valens Company, a Canadian medicinal cannabis business listed on the Toronto […]

WA becomes hub for medicinal cannabis manufacture

Perth based TetraMed, which holds approved licenses from seed to sale for medicinal cannabis, has announced that it is looking to raise a further $3 million to fuel growth as it seeks to capitalise on WA’s progressive medicinal cannabis regulations. “We are seeing Perth rapidly becoming a centre for excellence for medicinal cannabis and bio-pharmaceutical […]

Medicinal cannabis facilities receive major project status

Three medicinal cannabis cultivation and production facilities in Victoria and South Australia have received major project status from the Federal Government today. The projects, run by medicinal cannabis companies LeafCann, Cannatrek and PhytoGro are expected to create thousands of jobs in the two states and boost the country’s medicinal cannabis cultivation capacity. The largest of […]