A test case has demonstrated that the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) does not consider access to cannabis to be a universal human right and that balancing a cannabis user’s human rights with public interest is best left to sovereign states.
In effect the decision is a null result – leaving future similar suits to be determined on a case-by-case basis – as opposed to the ECHR finding in favour of the medical cannabis applicant, which may have created some precedent.