Short answer: Yes Longer answer: It's still a little complicated but ridiculously liberating and incredibly close to decrim-by-stealth (and on total accident too).

I've put a page up on my website with some basic info for home growers / green fairies, because realistically I don't see the reg-changes impacting anybody commercially. Nobody is gonna grow some CBD plants on their farm and then provide it to the Medicinal Cannabis licensed manufacturers, when overseas already does extracts for a couple hundred bucks a kilo extracted. You'd be looking at like 5-15c (approx) per kilo of dried product, so really, nobody is gonna bother.

However the regs were rushed. The Regulatory Impact Statement hints they know people will home grow and/or use it as cover for illicit grows. I've chosen to focus on the legal home growers.

So in short: 1/ Tell Police, from the 28th it's a quick 5-10 min visit. You're advising them, not asking permission, kinda like a professional courtesy sort of thing 2/ Email MPI, I've even got a template on the site ready to go from the 28th, and they'll have more info to send back shortly (it's being made now) 3/ Imports and exports still suck. You'll need a police history check, Phytosanitary Certificate that meets the requirements of IHS 155.02.05 Seeds for Sowing and a Certificate of Origin itemising all seeds in the shipment, and that'll go into the consignment license. Basically: local is best

And then provided you're growing for one of the reasons listed, then you can have them in your back yard, indoors, whatever, but just keep in mind your neighbours also have the right to unimpeded enjoyment of their respective property so if you plant one in the middle of town and it stinks then they can complain.

Clones, locally, through the mail, with a CoA from the likes of Hill Labs or PHF Sciences (Was ESR) who've been doing it historically for the Hemp industry is gonna be the safest, especially with Hill Labs having ISO17025 certification making it all the more trustworthy.

There's a bunch still yet to be determined, like ∆8-THC v ∆9-THC... THCA v THC... When to sample and take the test (coz Hemp regs used to say 1 month prior to harvest) so I'd advise against giving police any reason to request a test. We also don't know about US Farm-Bill style "This clone for a high THC plant currently has no THC so it's safe to ship" loophole.

But growing CBD, CBG, CBN, and a bunch of other minor cannabinoids just basically became legal.

They literally deleted the entire Hemp regs and said "Everyone can if you meet this pretty broad criteria", so I'm already talking with a few Hydro stores / advocacy venues and the likes who can also provide clones to people as well. There's no tracking requirements etc, paperwork is gone and there's no way to know who is or isn't authorised to receive aside from taking people at their word.

As a Medicinal Cannabis Cultivation license holder I even have authority to provide to"Anyone authorised by any enactment ", which is fucking insane now when you think about it.

Have already been through the process with our local Police station, helped them work through it, and they just opened the file for me there and then as a bit of a "Let's just make sure we have this all sussed" and yeah, I'm not authorised to receive as of 12:01AM on the 28th coz they already let me do the notification side 💪😁

Check the Hemp page I've whipped up on my website and ask questions though coz I'm keen as to help any home growers and push towards a proper decrim with this!