Hon SIMON BRIDGES (National—Tauranga): When I was Leader of the Opposition I was faced with a situation where the Government was doing nothing on medicinal cannabis, and many New Zealanders were contacting me—it was a huge issue on the television, on the radio, all the time there were worthy cases of people in pain who couldn't get the pain relief that they wanted. I was, I've got to be honest, somewhat sceptical. I wondered if this was a Trojan Chlöe Swarbrick horse for decriminalisation, and that's what was really going on here. But I did accept that there was a need for a regime of medicinal cannabis. 