Recreational marijuana use is illegal in Australia but laws were passed last year permitting medical use, with a dozen licences since issued for a range of uses including cultivation and manufacturing
Melbourne (AFP) - At a secret location in Australia's southeast, Peter Crook delicately tends to a two-month-old cannabis cutting.
Barely knee high, it is one of about 50 government-sanctioned "mother plants" to be cloned for future generations of crops for the country's fledgling medicinal marijuana industry.
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