Medicinal Cannabis for older Australians offers safe new options to older pharmaceuticals with known side effects. For decades, cannabis was portrayed in the media merely as an illegal drug used to get people high, and the people who use cannabis as no more than drug addicts and hippies seeking a desperate measure to detach from reality. As more jurisdictions begin to legalise the use of medicinal cannabis, these negative stigmas have beendisproved simply as “scare tactics”, and replaced with scientific evidence backing cannabis as an aid towards health and wellness.