Useful Australian experience changes in the current legislation
It lobbied the above legal act on the one hand allows Australian manufacturers cultivate psychoactive hemp, on the other hand putting the various administrative barriers to entry into the psychoactive raw country from abroad or precluding the possibility of cultivation of psychoactive hemp is not an Australian company in the "Green continent".
As previously reported in the pages of the electronic edition of profile Ukrainian growers, at the end of February 2016, the Australian Parliament passed a law legalizing the use of cannabis in the country psychoactive medical purposes. In particular, the law was amended to "Act on Narcotic Drugs" 1967, in accordance with which the THC from the category of illegal drugs moved into the "substances to be controlled." On the basis of this country is allowed to grow, and to use psychoactive hemp for medical and scientific purposes. In addition, patients who received special permission for use of psychoactive cannabis to treat a variety of serious diseases can now be legally stored and used strictly certain amount cannabisa to address problems with their health.
According to the country's health minister Susanna Leigh "Until recently, Australian patients was not possible to gain access to psychoactive hemp for use it for medical purposes, as appropriate medicines produced exclusively abroad. Which came into force a law radically changes the situation, allowing you to set up production of the relevant medicinal products directly at the facilities of pharmaceutical companies in the country. "
It should be noted that Australian citizens who have not received special permission for use of psychoactive hemp, the plant still remains inaccessible, and ignoring this kind of legal norms leads to the qualification of the act as an offense or a crime.
Comment of the Association "Ukrainian industrial hemp"
Before the adoption of the relevant amendments to the "Act on Narcotic Drugs" in 1967 the country bought therapeutic cannabis abroad. Pharmacological lobby the country almost immediately orient that psychoactive cannabis grown in Australia is more favorable and cheaper. Because was lobbied by the above legal act on the one hand allows Australian manufacturers cultivate psychoactive hemp, on the other hand putting the various administrative barriers to entry into the psychoactive raw country from abroad or precluding the possibility of cultivation of psychoactive hemp is not an Australian company in the "Green continent. "
For 2016 the specialists of profile association Ukrainian growers are actively discussions with government agencies in charge of the country for carrying out drug policy, the need to launch tetrahydrocannabinol from the category of "particularly dangerous psychotropic substances prohibited for circulation" and securing him the status of "Psychotropic substances, turnover of which limited. " Amendment only in one national legal act would give the opportunity to "run" the medical and pharmacological scope of cannabis before making changes to the law profile. In a similar way already passed by our colleagues from the "green continent", "full-scale launching" the possibility of treating the entire spectrum of Australian citizens cannabinoids, which nature has endowed hemp.
Information taken from the site http://tku.org.ua