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Is cannabis legal in Australia?

The Cannigma

This represents nearly double the level of support found in a 2007 survey (21%). Qualifying conditions for medical marijuana. These products can only be accessed through the Special Access Scheme by an authorized healthcare practitioner, or as part of a clinical trial, according to the Office of Drug Control.

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Report: “Key pharmacological differences between side effects of refined, pharmaceutical CBD formulations and whole plant extracts:”

Cannabis Law Report

Recent studies on the effectiveness of cannabidiol in the rare seizure disorders Dravet Syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome have prompted a biopharmaceutical company to perform clinical trials of its own to bring a cannabidiol based drug to the American market through the process of FDA approval. Lancet Neurol Dec 23 2015.

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Paper: The transition of cannabis into the mainstream of Australian healthcare: framings in professional medical publications

Cannabis Law Report

Medicinal cannabis has been legalised for use for a range of specified medical conditions in Australia since 2016. We also used manifest textual analysis to search for word frequencies, and specific conditions referred to in the articles retrieved. Refractory paediatric epilepsy. Spasticity from neurological conditions.