Queensland Consolidated Acts

DRUGS MISUSE ACT 1986 - SECT 51

51 What grower licences authorise

A grower licence authorises the licensee, in accordance with the licence—

(a) to possess industrial cannabis plants and seed; and

(b) to produce industrial cannabis plants and seed from planting seed; and

Note—

Planting seed is seed that is, in accordance with a regulation, taken to have been harvested from a cannabis plant with a THC concentration, in the plant’s leaves and flowering heads, of not more than 0.5%. However, industrial cannabis plants may have a THC concentration in their leaves and flowering heads of not more than 1%. The difference recognises that the leaves and flowering heads of plants grown using planting seed may have more than 0.5% THC because of environmental conditions beyond a grower’s control.

(c) to supply industrial cannabis seed to—

(i) a researcher; or

(ii) a grower; or

(iii) a person authorised under a regulation under section 48 to possess the seed; and

(d) to possess class A or class B research cannabis seed for use under the supervision of a researcher, as part of a field trial the researcher is conducting on land owned or leased by the grower; and

(e) to produce class A or class B research cannabis plants and seed under the supervision of a researcher, as part of a field trial the researcher is conducting on land owned or leased by the grower; and

(f) to supply to a researcher class A or class B research cannabis plants and seed produced on land owned or leased by the grower as part of a field trial conducted under the supervision of the researcher; and

(g) to supply industrial cannabis seed to—

(i) a person who holds a cannabis research licence or a medicinal cannabis licence under the Narcotic Drugs Act 1967 (Cwlth) ; or

(ii) a person in another State who is authorised under the law of that State to possess cannabis seed that, if grown, will produce cannabis plants with a THC concentration in their leaves and flowering heads that the person in the other State may possess; and

(h) if the licensee holds a licence under the Customs Act 1901 (Cwlth) authorising the licensee to export cannabis—to supply industrial cannabis seed to a person in another country who is authorised under the law of that country to possess the seed; and

(i) to supply processed cannabis to a person authorised under a regulation under section 48 to possess processed cannabis.