Little fuss was made about the recent vote in California, on the issue of legalising marijuana, and how although the proposal received a 46% vote in its favour, it did not get to 50% plus 1 majority needed.

Many people forget how California, together with 14 other states in America, allows what they call “medical marijuana” to be used.

In short, all you have to do is get a doctor to advise that as a result of the headaches you suffer, or a back spasm, or a pain in the tooth (you get the idea) or whatever alleged issues you need dagga for, as long as the doctor writes a script for you, you are quite entitled to go and buy it in shops or grow your own! It is sad that in our country the Constitutional Court, by a narrow majority deprived Gareth Prince, a Rastafarian of becoming an attorney because he said he smoked marijuana (which I certainly don’t think I good for your brain), whereas in America you literally get thousands of doctors, every day, in 13 different States, one of which, namely California, has a population not that far behind South Africa, writing out medical scripts for marijuana!