ODC defends regulatory approach in response to cultivator concerns

The Office of Drug Control (ODC) has defended Australia’s medicinal cannabis regulatory framework, rejecting claims of unfair treatment toward local growers and warning that any move to restrict imports would require broader policy reform.

The response follows a letter sent to federal health minister Mark Butler by the newly formed Australian Cannabis Cultivators Guild, which called for urgent action to “save the local medicinal cannabis cultivation industry from collapse”.