What right-on parents - they cycle, they have cool art and psychedelic carpets, they get their vegetables for their vegetarian dinner directly from a farmer and are politically active.

Cortes is staunchly pro-legalisation - this summer, he printed and distributed pamphlets to try to convince people on jury duty to practise ''jury nullification'', returning a not-guilty verdict regardless of evidence, in all criminal drug cases in protest at the law.

Many politicians and columnists have criticised Cortes's look at cannabis, claiming he was encouraging children down an evil road of drug abuse. But perhaps it will have the opposite effect.

Anything so self-consciously liberal is usually more than a little cringeworthy. If there's one thing that might put children off drugs, it's reading about these groovy parents taking them.