True Believers – Legalising Medicinal Cannabis In Australia, The Debate Rages On
“Cannabis sativa is the greatest wonder-drug ever known to man.” The grizzled, weather-beaten face of the aging hippie who sat across the narrow interview desk from me, in the close, stifling confines of the remand prison interview room, was stretched into a wide-eyed look of wonderment. “The Hindu Vedas sang about its powers in the Atharva Veda 1500 years before the birth of Christ. The Hindus called it ‘the food of the gods.’”
I took a reassuring glance in the direction of the panic button on the wall. It was comfortably within my reach.