Cannabis is illegal in Ireland for recreational use. The medical use of cannabis, however, is highly regulated and requires case-by-case approval from the Minister of Health. In practice, a child with epilepsy cannot be prescribed medical cannabis. It was precisely this kind of situation that prompted some members of parliament to introduce a bill to legalize the therapeutic use of cannabis in the Dáil Éireann, the lower house of Parliament, in December 2016.
A committee of the Irish Parliament, the Joint Committee on Drug Use, has published its final report, setting out 161 recommendations aimed at...
Five years after Ireland introduced its Medical Cannabis Access Program (MCAP), the government has decided to conduct an official review...
Formed in response to the Citizens' Assembly's calls for drug policy reform, a commission of the Oireachtas, the country's parliament,...
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After six months of deliberations, the Citizens' Assembly on Drug Use has completed its examination of the issues, after hearing from a wide range of experts...
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The strange thing about drug policy is that, within a single country, several opposing trends can be at work at the same time. Today, in Ireland, where a parliamentary committee...
A bill to decriminalize the personal use of cannabis is expected to be introduced in the Dáil, the Irish Parliament, in about two weeks' time. The MP for...
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His name is Ryan Gorman, he's 26 and lives in Dublin. This Irishman is the very first to receive cannabis, as part of the...
Irish patients suffering from a (short) list of medical conditions will now be able to receive treatment with cannabis-based medications. The Irish program officially began,...
Ireland becomes the 21st European Union country to authorize therapeutic cannabis. The Irish government has granted access to a (very) restricted list of patients...
Irish Health Minister Stephen Donnelly has confirmed that patients treated with medical cannabis will no longer need to travel to the Netherlands...
In a letter addressed to the Irish government and the country's environmental associations, the hemp growers of the green Erin castigate the authorities for ignoring them...
On Wednesday, Ireland announced the legalization of cannabis for medical use. The project, on trial for five years, will facilitate access to cannabis products....
In the coming weeks, the Irish government is due to examine a plan to liberalize drugs. A working group has been studying the issue for over a year...
Ireland began looking at medical cannabis in 2016. Since 2017, the government has been looking to set up a medical cannabis access program for...
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