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Narcotic Drugs Act 1967
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#### 8DA Purpose of this Chapter
A purpose of this Chapter is to enable the following activities to be undertaken in order to ensure that medicinal cannabis products are available to patients in Australia for therapeutic purposes:
(a) the cultivation and obtaining of cannabis plants for the purposes of producing cannabis or cannabis resin for medicinal or scientific purposes;
(b) the production of cannabis or cannabis resin for medicinal or scientific purposes;
(c) the manufacture of a cannabis drug for a permitted supply.