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Legal mess

The Misuse of Drugs (Medicinal Cannabis) Amendment Act 2018 was intended to break the logjam around medicinal cannabis, legalising and streamlining production here and allowing imports of cannabis-based medicines. For some patients, it has worked well, but in many other respects it is, to put it politely, a work in progress.

A key idea for legislators was that if cannabis products were made to the same standards as other prescription medicines, doctors would be more likely

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