Tasmania to greenlight cannabis farming, Capital Mining in deal for first licence

Tasmania is set to give the green light for Australia's first legal medical marijuana grower, in what is expected to be the start of a new industry for the state. Capital Mining, a failed explorer with a plan to transform itself as the second ASX-listed cannabis company, has struck a deal that puts it in line to be granted the first licence. 

Capital Mining will come out of a trading halt on Friday morning to announce it has struck a deal to pay $250,000 in cash and $100,000 in shares for Cannabinoid Extracts Australia, a subsidiary of ASX-listed Atlas Pearls and Perfumes. The venture has an application with the Tasmanian Department of Health and Human Services for a licence to grow medical-grade cannabis for the purpose of extracting cannabidiol (CBD), one of 85 active cannabinoids found in the plant. 

The company hired Piper Alderman partner Teresa Nicoletti, a 20-year veteran of...

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