This feature is republished from the Cannabis Law Report published by Sean Hocking.
This week it’s much easier to define because it’s the same story we’ve been told repeatedly over the last 15 or so years as government and the private sector around the world work in tandem to create a contexture that says.
Medical Cannabis Good / Personal Choice Cannabis Bad
Last month the NSW government in Australia against the findings of its own enquiry unequivocally shut down any pretence of furthering discussion of the regulation of cannabis outside the existing “medical” programme as defined by Canberra.
Yes, very generously, they would tinker with driving for registered medical cannabis users to keep the cannabis party and independents unduly occupied during the life of the parliament and I presume tie them up in endless pointless committees on a single topic thus sidelining the farce of holding an enquiry in the first place.
But that’s not really of much use for a young Koori kid being inducted into the Australian criminal justice system because he or she has been caught smoking weed in a dusty patch on the edge of a small country town.
Meanwhile regulated dealing of imported cannabis re-branded from Canada’s adult use market to Australia’s medical use market can earn doctors and their employers very healthy returns for sitting at home and dispensing advice and product via their laptops.
Latest Australian Cannabis Prescriber Jobs On Offer
There’s nothing wrong with medical cannabis and telehealth yet there’s everything thing wrong with medical cannabis and telehealth if it continues to operate in its current silo of unreality.
The UK is going down the same path at very high speed and we’ll come back to them in a moment.
In Germany they have read the warning signs and are debating how to curtail the excesses of the free market by managing telehealth and flower prescriptions with stricter regulatory controls.
Germany’s Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) withdraws draft amendment to cannabis program
You can see why when they noted in a recent release that this happened .
Germany – We’ve Exhausted Our Dried Cannabis Annual Import Allowance – No New Permits
“Medical cannabis” is also all the rage in Thailand & Sri Lanka. Thailand’s new PM has left his laissez faire salad days behind him.
การเมืองที่แท้จริง : Thailand’s new PM vows to end the ‘free use’ of cannabis
In Sri Lanka they are desperately in need of cash cows
Sri Lankan president & finance minister pro-medical cannabis export market pivot….
Also, before I forget, just out of Morocco.
I did say i would return to the UK where the playbook on cannabis access for the people remains the same according to Sir Keir of the good ship not so steady as she goes.
UK PM Starmer Tells Students Ahead Of Labour Conference That He Won’t Legalise Adult Use Cannabis
Yet at the same time he wants 16 year olds voting. Might I just gently suggest that cannabis be one of the issues that da kidz want dealt with quickly and out of the way.. to be fair it’s a no brainer.
They can get us idiots aged 50 or over to concentrate our minds on not completely fucking the planet for them.
I’ll finish up with the US, why because it is endlessly exhausting, entertaining & excruciating currently….
White House Exploring ‘All Options’ for Cannabis Rescheduling, Trump Drug Adviser Nominee Says
Science Textbook Publisher Gets Dumped By Square For Cannabis Mentions
Article: The Cannabis Compliance Cartel
And so it goes on
Sean Hocking
