Around forty percent of Australians have smoked cannabis. That’s more than ten million people—everyday Australians: public servants, first responders, even politicians.

So here’s the question we have to ask ourselves: if cannabis is already so widely used, why is it still illegal?

For decades, we’ve been fed the same old story from politicians too scared to face the facts.

Instead of honest debate, they lean on fear campaigns and outdated thinking, turning the question of legalisation into a football for their own political gain.

They tell us it’s too dangerous, but the reality is that millions of Australians use cannabis recreationally and medicinally in a safe, sensible and smart way every single year.

The truth is legalising cannabis isn’t radical. It isn’t experimental. And it isn’t new.

It’s happening right now in Canada, Germany, and the United States—and it's high time Canberra got on board.