Australia's first ever tax-payer funded medical marijuana greenhouse has opened in Sydney.
The Federal Government relaxed medical cannabis restrictions in March 2018, paving the way for the greenhouse's creation. The medical marijuana grown by the NSW state government and will be used to treat those with severe medical conditions such as cancer and epilepsy.
The greenhouse is currently in the research stage but once plants can be consistently grown with the same properties, they will be available for purchase.
NSW Minister for Agriculture, Adam Marshall, said the medical marijuana will contain the same consistent properties.
'People, whether they're cancer sufferers or suffering epilepsy, can actually purchase the plants, or purchase the product and it will be the same product and the same properties and composition each and every time,' Marshall told 7NEWS Sydney.
'The closest a lot of people have got to these plants is watching them go up in smoke when the police obviously raid facilities and confiscate plants.'
