SYNTHETIC CANNABINOIDS In mid-2011 synthetic cannabis products were being sold as a legal alternative to cannabis.

The Coroner found that Dr Mauro was being treated with drugs for an anxiety disorder and had admitted to one of his treating psychiatrists that he was smoking up to 10 cones of cannabis a day.

The Coroner found that Dr Mauro was being treated with drugs for an anxiety disorder and had admitted to one of his treating psychiatrists that he was smoking up to 10 cones of cannabis a day.

FRANKS: I wanted to move to medicinal cannabis and I get that there is an overlap here with the TGA and the Office of Drug Control, but my questions on notice—because I am not expecting you to have them in your notes, although I will be thrilled if you do—just how many medical practitioners have been able to prescribe, whether they are authorised prescribers, or been able to prescribe medicinal cannabis products; what the categories of health conditions have been for that; how many patients in South Australia have been able to access medicinal cannabis; and if there is any breakdown available into things like whether they have been able to access that because of palliative care versus other conditions, if that could be provided?

The latter would result in criminal prosecution. 2.3 The then Minister for Health highlighted this divide in his second reading speech: The expiation fees will apply to the possession and use of small amounts of cannabis and cannabis resin, the cultivation of cannabis for non-commercial purposes and the possession of implements which are connected with the use of cannabis or cannabis resin.

CEN Scheme/number of cannabis plants deemed to be for personal use.

As a result of the 288 detections, there were 319 arrest/reports, drug diversion and/or cannabis expiation notices initiated.

The Controlled Substances Act uses the nomenclature "cannabis ", "cannabis oil" and "can- nabis resin ", rather than the names "Indian hemp" and "hashish" which were used in the previous Act.

I have heard some anecdotal evidence that cannabis, particularly, is moving away from the black market so that organised motorcycle gangs, etc., are moving out of the cannabis market because people are forming their own collectives through social media—they call it the 'brown market'—and that is taking some share out of the cannabis market for these gangs.

The information enabled police to apprehend the person of interest and another person during the course of a drug transaction in New South Wales which involved 4.1 kilograms of cannabis.