“The Settled View Of Ministers Is That The Medicinal Campaign Is Just An Excuse To Take Cannabis”
These are the words of Sir Oliver Letwin, my MP, during a meeting with him just a few days ago. To some this may be an astonishing revelation, to others it will be depressing confirmation that this bigoted and out-of-date view still persists. Anyone with even a modicum of knowledge will agree that it is deeply ignorant and in defiance of a vast quantity of scientific evidence. This is the end point of my two and half years of discussion with Sir...