THEY say that to see the future, you should go to California. So when the Golden State legalised medical cannabis in 1996, we should have seen what was coming.
Sure enough, where California led, others followed. Today more than half the citizens of the US have legal access to medical cannabis of one form or another, as do those of a further 44 countries. The United Nations recently convened a special meeting to assess the state of knowledge on medical cannabis, the first time it has ever looked at the drug since blanket prohibition almost six decades ago. As a report on the health effects of cannabis published in 2017 by the US National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine concluded, “this is a pivotal time in the world of cannabis policy and research”.
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