Victorian Numbered Acts

ACCESS TO MEDICINAL CANNABIS ACT 2016 (NO. 20 OF 2016) - SECT 1

The main purposes of this Act are—

        (a)     to provide for medicinal use of products derived from cannabis by establishing a scheme—

              (i)     for supply to and treatment of Victorians with specified conditions with approved medicinal cannabis products of reliable quality and known composition; and

              (ii)     which preserves the prohibition of unlawful trafficking, cultivation, supply and use of the drug of dependence Cannabis L.; and

        (b)     to provide for the lawful manufacture of medicinal cannabis products; and

        (c)     to consequentially amend the Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Act 1981 and make related amendments to certain other Acts.