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Covid spruikers hold back medicinal cannabis industry’s quest for legitimacy
https://archive.is/UaTDR

... So the last thing medicinal cannabis producers need is a pile on of “spivs”, claiming that cannabis is a cure-all for a smorgasbord or ailments, including Covid-19, without solid clinical evidence, which threatens the industry’s hard-fought battle to shake off “pot head” connotations.

“It doesn’t help get the clickbait headlines, saying it’s going to be the latest thing that’s going to solve the world’s problems,” says Crock, who has been busily preparing the Mildura site for an audit by the health regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration.

“We’re setting this up to be an efficient lab-scale producer. We’re not here to produce commodity cannabis. We are producing IP-protected medicine. Medicine that looks and feels like medicines that doctors normally prescribe.” ...