Medical marijuana legalised at federal level in Australia.
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[quote]The Australian parliament passed new national laws today paving the way for the use of medicinal cannabis by people with painful and chronic illness.
Amendments to the Narcotic Drugs Act permit both legally-grown cannabis for the manufacture of medicinal cannabis products in Australia. The changes, proposed earlier this month by the Turnbull government, had bi-partisan support.
Recreational cannabis cultivation and use remains illegal with state-based criminal laws still in place.
Health minister Sussan Ley said it was an historic day for the nation and the people who “fought long and hard to challenge the stigma around medicinal cannabis products so genuine patients are no longer treated as criminals”.
“This is the missing piece in a patient’s treatment journey and will now see seamless access to locally-produced medicinal cannabis products from farm to pharmacy,” she said
Under the new federal scheme, patients with a valid prescription can possess and use medicinal cannabis products manufactured from cannabis legally cultivated in Australia, provided the supply has been authorised under the Therapeutic Goods Act and relevant state and territory legislation. The changes put medical cannabis in the same category as restricted medicinal drugs such as morphine.
The Victorian government announcement last year that it will legalise the drug for medical use in 2017. NSW is also currently conducting trials into a cannabis-based drug, Epidolex, with a focus on children with epilepsy, and leading the state-based focus on medical marijuana.[/quote]
[url]http://www.businessinsider.com.au/medical-marijuana-is-now-legal-in-australia-2016-2[/url]
The article doesn't seem to be clear on whether it still needs to be legalised at the state level.
Im pretty sure this just allows states to legalise it at state level without the AFP stepping in to close marijuana growing areas, still a great step
This is good news. We can all argue about people being legally allowed to smoke weed or not as long as we will and how bad or good that is for society but making it legally for medical use is only good a good thing.
[QUOTE=Zero!;49803288]This is good news. We can all argue about people being legally allowed to smoke weed or not as long as we will and how bad or good that is for society but making it legally for medical use is only good a good thing.[/QUOTE]
Doesn't this indirectly make life easier for those who illegally smoke it for w/e purpose as well? Like, indirectly.
[QUOTE=Bat-shit;49805814]Doesn't this indirectly make life easier for those who illegally smoke it for w/e purpose as well? Like, indirectly.[/QUOTE]
In the same sense that people who are prescribed ADHD medicine giving/selling it to people makes it easier for those people to illegally own that medicine, yes.
Now sweden pls
[QUOTE=Eeshton;49805881]In the same sense that people who are prescribed ADHD medicine giving/selling it to people makes it easier for those people to illegally own that medicine, yes.[/QUOTE]
And that's just one example of someone getting ahold of some medical marijuana? Doctors or staff or suppliers may as well snatch a little something on the side.
Firstly, it's not legalised. The bill only passed Parliament. You need to read the law to know when it starts, and it has the potential to be 8 months after the date in which the Governor-General gives it Royal Assent.
Secondly, this has no effect on the end user wishing to use marijuana. That is wholly the State's domain, not Federal.
The law allows the use of marijuana for scientific purposes, and allows it to be scheduled for medical purposes when the drug becomes legal within State law. It also allows for people to apply to grow, import or cultivate marijuana for medical purposes, but not use.
That said, it is one big step in the path towards legalisation of the drug. It means we won't have the terrible mismatch of laws that the US has in a similar area, where Fed Police have to act one way and County and State police another.
[QUOTE=Zovox;49806689]Now sweden pls[/QUOTE]
Won't happen cause EU is still living in the aftershocks of Hitler's total anti-smoking ideology, and politicans aren't smart enough to know about edibles.
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The article doesn't seem to be clear on whether it still needs to be legalised at the state level.[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure its legal at a state level because of old charters and such, I remember hearing of plenty of cases were police or courts have been forced to either drop or in one case return the plants that they had taken because as it was stated the person was only using it for personal use and wasn't profiteering from it.
[QUOTE=Passing;49810302]I'm pretty sure its legal at a state level because of old charters and such, I remember hearing of plenty of cases were police or courts have been forced to either drop or in one case return the plants that they had taken because as it was stated the person was only using it for personal use and wasn't profiteering from it.[/QUOTE]
It most definitely isn't legal at any state level. In some states, it has been decriminlised (they will take away your plants and thats the end of the matter), but the use and selling of marijuana for any reason is still, even after this new law, illegal in every state and territory in Australia.
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