Please legalise marijuana, begs Australian showman, Will Anderson.

The funny man isn't being funny. He has a problem: he has been fighting osteoarthritis for seven years. And in his latest battle, he calls for arms in the form of a legal drug, marijuana, to heal his back and hip pain.

In California, it is legal to use cannabis to treat health issues, so why not in Australia, asks the 40-year-old host of the U.S. popular show, "Gruen Transfer." With marijuana in important drugs, he can manage the severe side-effects of his illness.

Anderson's osteoarthritis is so severe that his double hip replacement has been deferred. He admits that in the last seven years, there hasn't been a moment when he did not suffer. Sometimes, the severity was so high that he could not even walk or get out of bed.

Last June he had been shown smoking marijuana on a U.S. show "Getting Doug With High." However, he said that the public had been supportive. He was also thankful that the U.S. treated him with legal medicine, though in Australia he had to do without marijuana, or be called a criminal.

Anderson's view is that it would be more useful to regulate and moderate the drug, instead of banning something that makes people criminals for choosing it for health purposes, he said to news.com

After all, the such users are not harming anyone. In an interview with Switched On to market a comedy special "Montreal - Just For Laughs 2014," he clarifies that he is merely taking the drug for medical purposes.

Of course, the drug could impact many people, especially those who were young or vulnerable to schizophrenia. He has seen friends "be stoners and blow their careers, so there are a lot of downsides as well," he explains to news.com.

But on the other hand, though the drug is banned in Australia, the irony is that this country uses marijuana the most, with the maximum per capita consumption in the world. "The Lancet" in 2012 said that cannabis usage in Australia is thrice that in the world.

The ban, then, is obviously not working. Moreover, alcohol is more damaging than marijuana.