It’s also one year since the announcement of the results of their cannabis referendum, in which a forgotten 48 per cent of voters supported full commercial legalisation. A lot has happened since then – mostly related to Covid – but there has been almost no progress on cannabis law reform. Medicinal cannabis remains expensive and out of reach. The Government should apply the Commerce Commission’s thinking around supermarkets to the medicinal cannabis industry. Access to medicinal cannabis remains an equity issue – it is limited to those who can afford it.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 07, 2021 20:15 UTC