AUSTRALIA & NZ Australian-made medical cannabis hits pharmacy shelves [The New Daily] Western Australian-based Little Green Pharma (LPG) is claiming to be the first in Australia to grow and manufacture medicinal cannabis oil and supply pharmacists across Australia. The crops are grown hydroponically in south-west WA and processed and manufactured [...]
AUSTRALIA & NZ Who’s got those all-important golden cannabis licences and who hasn’t [Stockhead] By our count 12 of the 27 ASX-listed companies involved in the medical cannabis sector have some form of licence to operate in Australia. Medical cannabis licences in Australia have an expiry date of 12 months [...]
BOOK REVIEW Victorian MP and leader of the Reason Party, Fiona Patten, has welcomed the release of her memoir - Sex, Drugs and The Electoral Roll. The book, published by Allen and Unwin and released tomorrow, contrasts her life as a lobbyist for Australia’s sex industry over two decades, with [...]
This year’s Victorian State election on November 24 will mark four years of the Sex/Reason Party being in the Victorian parliament. In those four short years the party’s leader, Fiona Patten, has achieved a lot. The ABC’s morning show host John Faine called her “the most effective legislator in Australia [...]
AUSTRALIA & NZ High Hopes: Farmers add hemp to their grain cropping programs [ABC] Following the legalisation of hemp seed as food last year, Australian farmers are now adding hemp to their grain cropping programs. But key players in the emerging industry say a golden opportunity is being missed in [...]
AUSTRALIA & NZ NSW drivers face bigger fines, loss of licence under new laws [The Sydney Morning Herald] Under the proposed laws, introduced into Parliament by the Roads Minister Melinda Pavey on Wednesday, the punishments for low-range drink and drug-driving would be handed out on-the-spot. Anyone choosing to fight the [...]