Son Dan and Lucy Haslam

face: People will also be able to apply for licences to grow and manufacture medicinal cannabis in Australia, according to Nine News Australia. But Lucy Haslam, who became the face of the campaign for change after medicinal cannabis helped her late son Dan with the severe nausea caused by chemotherapy, says patients still face many hurdles to access."I've got a lot of calls from patients saying how do I get it," Ms Haslam told AAP."The reality is there nothing to get yet."Elaine Darby, chief executive of medicinal cannabis company Aus Cann, says patients should be able to start accessing Australian-grown cannabis from late 2017. From November 1, cannabis for therapeutic use will become a controlled drug rather than a prohibited one. It now up to other states and territories to enact their own legislation to enable access, as NSW and Queensland have done. Once licences are granted, growers will need to import stock to get started, grow and manufacture the product, and then get it approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration. But Ms Haslam says access from late 2017 is the best-case scenario. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.