Every Friday The New Zealand Initiative puts out a newsletter (if you haven’t already, you can sign up here) where we write opinion pieces on current issues. Early in the week, I decided to write on medical marijuana, assuming that Helen Kelly’s excellent weekend interview on The Nation wouldn’t get the attention it deserves.
I was wrong. Over the past week, the issue has blown up. Really, I should have known better. First, because it is an understandably emotional issue, and like euthanasia, involves the government getting in the way of the alleviation of pain and suffering.
And second, because it’s just one of those topics that people are often weirdly coy about. Especially as a public figure. It’s like the question “have you ever inhaled?” Everyone knows someone who has smoked pot, but admitting to it as a public figure still seems like a bit of a social taboo…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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