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Australia: Victoria and Queensland announce medicinal marijuana trials

Submitted by Marijuana News on Mon, 04/20/2015 - 08:00

Victoria and Queensland have joined New South Wales in taking part in a clinical trial for the use of medicinal marijuana.

The three largest eastern states will decriminalise the use of cannabis oil for the treatment of conditions like chemotherapy-related nausea, drug-resistant severe epilepsy and in palliative care.

New South Wales announced that it would hold clinical trials for the substance in December last year, and the premiers of Queensland and Victoria said they had decided to hold similar trials after a meeting in the lead up to Friday’s Council of Australian Governments (Coag) meeting.

“Prior to the Coag meeting I was fortunate enough to have a conversation with [NSW] premier Mike Baird and [Victorian] premier Daniel Andrews. I would like to place on the record my thanks to premier Mike Baird for his leadership in relation to this issue,” Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk...

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http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/apr/19/victoria-and-queensland-announce-medicinal-marijuana-trials

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