Some time in February, it is expected that the Bill permitting the medicinal use of cannabis shall become law. I am following the parliamentary debate with attention, and wish to contribute a suggestion. The main worry about making drugs available is the possible misuse which even such regulated availability may produce.
One cannot imagine that it would be the liberal prescription by medical doctors which provides the greatest risk: that, indeed, must be discounted. I believe that the main risk lies in the actual presence of cannabis within a household.
I therefore encourage the Ministry of Health to educate potential ‘consumers’, especially if they are parents, to keep the substance away from children and adolescents, and to refrain from disclosing to vulnerable members of the family the fact that they have been prescribed the drug.