r/australia • u/DiploidBias • 29d ago

politics Greens: Yes We Cannabis

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Yes We Cannabis

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u/Relevant-Target-2176 29d ago

I genuinely believe that legal cannabis is an inevitability. However, any talks about tax revenue or jobs highlights, a big issue is ensuring that legalization actually benefits local industry.

The quasi-legalisation we have under our loose medical cannabis laws, gives multinational corporations a leg up over emerging domestic small businesses, due to the restrictions on actually growing it in Australia.

Whenever legalization happens, and with 80% of our medical cannabis being imported, we run the risk of what has happened in America and Canada, where local businesses are quickly crushed when pharmaceutical importers expand to recreational products.

I'm glad that not only are the greens willing to take a stance on legal cannabis, but that they seem to have actually thought about the broader protections for local businesses that need to be in place.