SUNSHINE Coast Mayor Mark Jamieson says the council’s years of hard work on medicinal marijuana partnerships are an important part of a Coast-based business being awarded the first Queensland licence to commercially produce the drug.
Medifarm announced on Friday it had been granted Queensland’s first commercial cultivation and production licence from the Federal Government’s Office of Drug Control.
Cr Jamieson said the council had been instrumental in connecting local and international partnerships and wanted to ensure the Sunshine Coast led Australia in progressing medicinal marijuana.
He said an exclusive agreement formed with Israel’s leading medicinal marijuana producer would provide access to more than 10 years of clinical research.
Read the full article by Erle Levey at The Sunshine Coast Daily.