Six weeks after announcing a licensing scheme to manage the supply of locally grown medicinal cannabis, Health Minister Sussan Ley has returned to the drawing board.
Instead of allowing the states to set up individual cultivation schemes, as she announced in October, the Minister now says she wants a single national cultivation scheme run by the Commonwealth Government.
In October, the government promised it would bring legislation to set up a cultivation scheme “to parliament by the end of the year”.
With just one parliamentary sitting day left, she is now promising “in consultation with state and territory Governments, to introduce legislation in the first sitting period of 2016”.
