{"id":41899,"date":"2018-01-04T15:27:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T10:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=41899"},"modified":"2018-01-04T15:27:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T10:27:29","slug":"australia-aims-to-become-top-exporter-of-cannabis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=41899","title":{"rendered":"Australia aims to become top exporter of cannabis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Canberra, Jan. 4 (TNS): <\/strong>The Australian government has said it aspires to be the world&#8217;s leading exporter of medicinal cannabis.<\/p>\n<p>The nation plans to change its regulations to join Canada and the Netherlands in selling products beyond a domestic market. Uruguay and Israel have announced similar plans.<\/p>\n<p>Health Minister Greg Hunt said the move would also help local patients.<\/p>\n<p>Australia legalised the use of medicinal cannabis in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Using the drug for recreation remains illegal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our goal is very clear: to give Australian farmers and manufacturers the best shot at being the world&#8217;s number one exporter of medicinal cannabis,&#8221; Mr Hunt said.<\/p>\n<p>Changing national regulations will require parliamentary approval. That could happen as soon as February with support from the Labor opposition.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Broadcasting Corp reported the changes would extend of products including oils, patches, sprays, lozenges and tablets.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Hunt said the change would stimulate the local industry, benefiting Australian patients as much as businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The global market for medicinal cannabis could eclipse $55bn (\u00a340bn; A$70bn) by 2025, according to an estimate by US consultancy company Grand View Research.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canberra, Jan. 4 (TNS): The Australian government has said it aspires to be the world&#8217;s leading exporter of medicinal cannabis. The nation plans to change its regulations to join Canada and the Netherlands in selling products beyond a domestic market. Uruguay and Israel have announced similar plans. Health Minister Greg Hunt said the move would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[767,733],"class_list":["post-41899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-canberra","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41901,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41899\/revisions\/41901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}