NSW Government Applies for License to Grow Medical Marijuana

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The NSW Government is about to become the plug for patients across the country, applying for a license to grow large quantities of medicinal marijuana. 

NSW will be putting up Rick Ross numbers should their license be approved. The decision is currently with the Federal Government, who made the cultivation of medicinal cannabis legal earlier in the year.

Minister for Primary Industries Niall Blair said he was hoping the Federal Government would act quickly to approve the proposal.

"We hope to have a positive result and a relatively quick turn-around because then we hope to be able to move into this area and start the cultivation," he told ABC.

"We might even have to start the cultivation ourselves, as a Government, on DPI sites, so that we can progress this as quickly as we can."

Should the license receive the green light, the state intends to set up shop in Tamworth – where the backbone of the local economy is about to be switched from Golden Guitars to purple haze.

An international agronomist, who was not named in the ABC report, backed Australia’s ganja-growing credentials. 

"Australia has the potential to lead the world here on exactly what cannabis is supposed to be and exactly how it's supposed to be produced — outdoors in the sun, naturally,"

"Australia is the only country that can grow every type of variety under the sun,” he said, before indicating more than one strain will be grown by the state. 

"Everybody is different — a type or variety that you can find extremely effective for you mightn't be so effective for me," he said.

"That's where custom medication is going to come into this."

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