Australia's first marijuana farm is in a secret location in the countryside

There is a farm in Australia where weed will be grown across hectares but the government is not going to tell you where it is.

In no doubt a challenge to stoners everywhere, many will try and probably fail to find the magical fields of marijuana hidden deep in the Australian countryside.

Although it sounds like all fun and brownies, if and when marijuana is grown on this property it will be only for medical treatment. On Wednesday, Victoria became the first Australian state to legalise medical marijuana, which can be taken in "exceptional circumstances."

In February, the Australian government amended the Narcotics Drugs Act to allow the issuing of licenses for cultivation of medical marijuana and research into the drug. It didn't legalise consumption, which will need to be implemented at a state level. 

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, who officially opened what plans to be Australia's first medicinal marijuana farm on Friday, detailed the serious story behind the farm. 

The 47-square hectare property at a secret location near Tamworth is owned by Lucy Haslam, the mother of Dan Haslam, a 25-year-old Australian who died from bowel cancer but in his short life advocated tirelessly for the legalisation of medical cannabis in Australia. 

One year after his death, the state where the farm is found, New South Wales, still has not legalised the use of the drug for people with severe epilepsy, chronic pain or other conditions which could be helped with access to the drug.

It is hoped that this will occur in the near future. Many people are currently given the choice to break the law to help their child or loved one control seizures or pain. 

"We have been able to bring Australian political views up to date with current world views to change laws," Haslam said, according to the ABC. "We have begun the process of re-educating Australian health providers around the use of medical cannabis."

Haslam has big plans for the future of medical cannabis in the country. "We see it as a new Australian primary industry," she said.

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