Medical marijuana may soon be available for patients in Ireland after the minority government approved Thusday a new amendment allowing use of the plant. The bill, drafted by Ireland’s People Before Profit group, still has another round of approval by the government before it can become law. The bill, which was presented to the Dáil […]
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Ireland: Medicinal Cannabis Offers ‘A New Horizon’ For Treatment Of Epilepsy
The Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) has been asked by Mr Harris to provide an expert opinion on medicinal cannabis and any policy and legislative changes needed. HPRA chief executive Lorraine Nolan told an Oireachtas Committee on Health that a group of medical experts would be assisting the authority. Working in the area of controlled […]
Ireland: Simon Harris Pledges To Take Action On Medicinal Cannabis
Minister for Health Simon Harris has promised the mother of an ill child that he will take action on the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes in January. The Minister made the promise to Vera Twomey after she embarked on a walk from Co Cork to Leinster House in order to draw attention to the […]
Ireland: Medical Cannabis – Is It High Time For A Change?
In 1839, Limerick-born physicist William O’Shaughnessy was credited as the first expert to introduce cannabis to Western medicine after researching its benefits in Calcutta. His second trip to India saw him knighted by Queen Victoria and dubbed the “grandfather of cannabis research”. Almost 175 years later, a promising comedian by the name of Aodhrua Fitzgerald […]
Ireland: Bill To Legalise Medicinal Cannabis Tabled In Dáil
An opposition TD has introduced a bill in the Dáil that would see cannabis legalised for medicinal use. Anti-Austerity Alliance/ People Before Profit deputy Bríd Smith said there is demand for such medication by a number of specific groups of ill-health sufferers. She said that she has met with a group representing people who suffer […]
Ireland Just Legalized Magic Mushrooms and More (Temporarily)
Ireland’s party people are basking in a state of utopia for the next 24 hours thanks to a judgment call over the constitutionality of the country’s drug laws, which has resulted, at least by accident, in a number of illicit substances, like crystal meth, ecsta… Read article here: High Times
Support Growing Slowly For Legalisation Of Cannabis In Ireland
In Co Meath, 60-year-old Darcy Petticrew grows cannabis to produce a tincture. 10 times stronger than the weed itself, that he ingests to relieve pain caused by a spinal-cord injury that has had him wheelchair-bound for 17 years. “Without it I cannot function; it’s that simple,” he says. It is 13 years since Dr Orla […]
NORML Ireland Up and Running
On October 24, Irish Independent politician Luke “Ming” Flanagan held a press conference to announce the launch of an Irish chapter of NORML, the American organization that advocates for the decriminalization and legalization of marijuana. High Times
Ireland to Allow Sativex by Prescription
Doctors in Ireland could be allowed to prescribe a pharmaceutical form of medical marijuana later this year. While the Irish Medicines Board approved the use ofSativexin April, the government has delayed authorizing doctors to prescribe thecannabinoid-co… High Times