India Needs a New Discourse and Debate on Cannabis

It’s High Time India had the Weed Talk

  • India’s approach to marijuana or cannabis is characterised by ignorance and insularity
  • There’s no concern for cancer patients’ need for medical marijuana
  • India should do well to learn from The Netherlands
 

Blinkered policies, a stringent law, and doctors’ resistance impose a terribly painful suffering on many.

That the government and the administration have made a ‘hash’ of India’s drug policy is an opinion which has been voiced for quite some time. It is steadily gaining ground because of the demand to decriminalise the use of cannabis (also known as marijuana). This demand has come from multiple sectors, members of which have given different reasons.

 
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