Cannabis as a medical option: First products to go on sale

Only time will tell whether today’s children will have as much difficulty explaining to their grandchildren why we so steadfastly criminalised medicinal cannabis products as their grandparents have today trying to explain why contraceptives were once only available to married couples who could find a doctor who might prescribe them.

Just as legalising cannabis, even medicinal cannabis, is still regarded in some quarters as proof that the barbarians are at the gates, the legalisation of contraception — the first of many loosing laws — was seen in that light too.