Monitoring and compliance
We monitor the legal cultivation, production and manufacture of controlled drugs. We have compliance activities like inspections, fines (infringement notices) and court action.
Our Authorised Inspectors monitor licence and permit holders who cultivate, produce and manufacture narcotic drugs. Inspections seek to increase the knowledge of licence and permit holders to meet their regulatory obligations and to prevent any diversion of narcotic drugs away from the regulated supply chain and into the illegal market.
We also issue fines through infringement notices when we believe there has been an offence against the Narcotic Drugs Act 1967 (the Act). We save our strongest actions, such as criminal prosecution, for serious or high-risk non-compliance.
News
- Cannatrek Technologies Pty Ltd fined $19,800 for alleged breaches of the Narcotic Drugs ActWe have issued an infringement notice totalling $19,800 to Queensland-based company Cannatrek Technologies Pty Ltd (Cannatrek) for alleged breaches of its medicinal cannabis licence.
- MCEWG, Meeting 3, 16 October 2024The Medicinal Cannabis Expert Working Group (MCEWG) met for its third meeting in Melbourne on Wednesday 16 October 2024.
- MCEWG, Meeting 2, 17 July 2024The Medicinal Cannabis Expert Working Group (MCEWG) met for its second meeting in Canberra on Wednesday 17 July 2024