Widening access to medical cannabis for patients, and how to go about it, will be central to the discussion at Cannabis Europa, the conference at the heart of European Cannabis Week. He believes the establishment has hijacked cannabis, and fears that a future recreational cannabis market dominated by corporate interests may lobby against the right for people to grow their own. They’re completely gentrifying it by attempting to persuade lawmakers that homegrown cannabis is unsafe. “I fear we’re going to end up with a commercial cannabis market before people get the right to grow. Fast-forward two years, and their canny, patient-led campaigning led to the legalisation of medical cannabis in June 2018.

Source: The Guardian June 23, 2019 06:56 UTC