The Southern Hemisphere’s largest medicinal cannabis operation is quietly being developed in a former Hobart asylum-seeker detention camp, despite frustration at the slow uptake of its medicines by doctors. Tasmanian Botanics – owned by local farmers Tony and Rodney Fehlberg and Chinese-backed Y Cannabis – is ploughing $40m into the modern cannabis growing and processing
The Southern Hemisphere’s largest medicinal cannabis operation is quietly being developed in a former Hobart asylum-seeker detention camp, despite frustration at the slow uptake of its medicines by doctors.
Tasmanian Botanics – owned by local farmers Tony and Rodney Fehlberg and Chinese-backed Y Cannabis – is ploughing $40m into the modern cannabis growing and processing operation at Pontville.
It already produces 25kg of cannabis flowers each fortnight, processing this into 1700 bottles of liquid medicines that are available under Therapeutic Goods Administration schemes.
A further massive expansion of the high-security site will boost output to 270kg – 18,000 bottles – a fortnight over two years, with jobs increasing from 40 to 150.
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