High and happy

At least 16 countries have legalised the scientific or medical use of cannabis in recent time

Union Cabinet Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi has suggested that medical use of marijuana be legalised in the country, reported the Press Trust of India and Scroll.in last Sunday. She argued that medical marijuana could help cancer patients, and cited the examples of countries where marijuana had been legalised, resulting in less drug abuse. 

Ms Gandhi is not the first parliamentarian to bat for this — Tathagata Satpathy, a Lok Sabha member from Odisha, too, had suggested legalising weed, claiming it would help fight alcoholism and calling the ban on it “classist”. In November last year, Dharamvir Gandhi,