Medicinal marijuana and the lengths Australian farmers must go to in securely growing it

Fingerprint scanners, motion sensor laser alarms, security teams and top secret locations sound like the stuff of spy movies, not Australian farms.

But that is the reality for a new breed of farmers trying their hand at medicinal cannabis, who have to make sure the crop is secure from paddock to processor.

"Imagine having all kinds of questions thrown at you like 'What happens if someone shows up with a gun, what are you going to do?'" said Adam Benjamin from Medifarm, a Sunshine Coast-based company and the first in Queensland to be given the green light to grow the controversial crop under strict licence.

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Marty McCarthy ~ ABCnet.au via 420Intel.com ~