One day in the not too distant future medicinal and recreational cannabis will be legal.
For a generally progressive country, Ireland’s attitude towards cannabis is completely backwards.
Between the attitude towards medical cannabis, people losing their licenses because they have cannabis in their systems yet are not impaired and the fact that we don’t even need a referendum to address these problems you’d have to wonder…
I this day and age its ridiculous even Thailand a place where you could get the death sentence for possession and use has just legalised it we live in a backwards country
Smoke joint on a Sunday, get road side drug tests on the Thursday, find trace amounts…..band off the road for a year
Welcome to Ireland
When they can prove the product works on what drug target receptor fine
Until then it’s no guarantee which cannabinoid or THC target they are or are not actually effecting with street drugs which are unlikely pure
Is there a reason why this person’s consultant/doctor is not prescribing them cannabis? Genuinely would like to see this research in the article. It does say 12 people are getting it in the state. I do think more research and education for doctors and consultants is needed so that they can prescribe it.
Disclaimer: I am soft pro legalising it but I don’t think it is the silver bullet that a lot of people present as is.
I’m an Irish person living in the UK and I won’t move back until medical cannabis is made available. The UK is really backward on this (UK is the major exporter of MC in Europe but UK nationals are not allowed to take it). But nothing compared to Ireland.
I would assume that the small number of fully liberalised countries in the EU would make it easier, but still there remains a puritan streak in the Irish psyche.
Anyone know what Sinn Féin’s views on cannabis, medicinal and recreational are? They seem to stay very quiet about it. The party doesn’t seem to have any official view on it at all. You can find what other parties official views are on online but not Sinn Fein. Hopefully when that PBP guy brings forward his bill to the dail and there’s a debate we will find out.
Nah don’t feel ashamed about it.
It’s just cannabis not a fucking RPG or an AK47.
A victimless crime.
If it helps, fuck it go for it.
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I know a mum who has a young kid who was always having seiures after a childhood brain trauma, what caused his seizures to come under control? Cannabis oil. She had to import this stuff dodgily and risk being a criminal (this is in Oz). They need to change the rules!!!
The only way for us to move into a free cannabis market is for consumers of the plant to come out of the closet. Doctors, teachers, Gardaí, Social workers, office jockeys, local authorities. People who smoke need to be open and honest about the fact that they smoke. The reason there’s such a social stigma is because it’s not talked about. Everybody knows someone who smokes, or makes edibles, or in some way consumes the plant. We need to show society that it’s not just lads in trackies at Connolly station.
Ohhh you can hear the gardai’s batons been squeezed reading this.
The virgin stoner vs the gigachad chronic pain sufferer
Can’t recommend CBD oil capsules enough,there’s also creams,oral drops etc, my chronic back pain disappeared in days
I am an Irish person living un the US and have been researching and developing cannabis products (legally & medically) for the last 8 years.
I’ve been researching cannabinoids responses in AIDs patients, opioid addicts, & Intractable Epileptic children, all in a large university hospital over here.
All was privately funded by “finance dudes” who are trying to become the Budweiser of weed.
We have a long way to go. The government doesn’t want to hear it.
It’s a joke. I have nerve damage and occasionally use weed for sleep. It works a charm. But I’ve had to stop for the most part as roadside testing can sting you days afterwards. Countless studies show cannabis is safer than alcohol, and obviously far safer than cigarettes. But this government is too backwards to realise it.
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One day in the not too distant future medicinal and recreational cannabis will be legal.
For a generally progressive country, Ireland’s attitude towards cannabis is completely backwards.
Between the attitude towards medical cannabis, people losing their licenses because they have cannabis in their systems yet are not impaired and the fact that we don’t even need a referendum to address these problems you’d have to wonder…
I this day and age its ridiculous even Thailand a place where you could get the death sentence for possession and use has just legalised it we live in a backwards country
Smoke joint on a Sunday, get road side drug tests on the Thursday, find trace amounts…..band off the road for a year
Welcome to Ireland
When they can prove the product works on what drug target receptor fine
Until then it’s no guarantee which cannabinoid or THC target they are or are not actually effecting with street drugs which are unlikely pure
Is there a reason why this person’s consultant/doctor is not prescribing them cannabis? Genuinely would like to see this research in the article. It does say 12 people are getting it in the state. I do think more research and education for doctors and consultants is needed so that they can prescribe it.
Disclaimer: I am soft pro legalising it but I don’t think it is the silver bullet that a lot of people present as is.
I’m an Irish person living in the UK and I won’t move back until medical cannabis is made available. The UK is really backward on this (UK is the major exporter of MC in Europe but UK nationals are not allowed to take it). But nothing compared to Ireland.
I would assume that the small number of fully liberalised countries in the EU would make it easier, but still there remains a puritan streak in the Irish psyche.
Anyone know what Sinn Féin’s views on cannabis, medicinal and recreational are? They seem to stay very quiet about it. The party doesn’t seem to have any official view on it at all. You can find what other parties official views are on online but not Sinn Fein. Hopefully when that PBP guy brings forward his bill to the dail and there’s a debate we will find out.
Nah don’t feel ashamed about it.
It’s just cannabis not a fucking RPG or an AK47.
A victimless crime.
If it helps, fuck it go for it.
[deleted]
I know a mum who has a young kid who was always having seiures after a childhood brain trauma, what caused his seizures to come under control? Cannabis oil. She had to import this stuff dodgily and risk being a criminal (this is in Oz). They need to change the rules!!!
The only way for us to move into a free cannabis market is for consumers of the plant to come out of the closet. Doctors, teachers, Gardaí, Social workers, office jockeys, local authorities. People who smoke need to be open and honest about the fact that they smoke. The reason there’s such a social stigma is because it’s not talked about. Everybody knows someone who smokes, or makes edibles, or in some way consumes the plant. We need to show society that it’s not just lads in trackies at Connolly station.
Ohhh you can hear the gardai’s batons been squeezed reading this.
The virgin stoner vs the gigachad chronic pain sufferer
Can’t recommend CBD oil capsules enough,there’s also creams,oral drops etc, my chronic back pain disappeared in days
I am an Irish person living un the US and have been researching and developing cannabis products (legally & medically) for the last 8 years.
I’ve been researching cannabinoids responses in AIDs patients, opioid addicts, & Intractable Epileptic children, all in a large university hospital over here.
All was privately funded by “finance dudes” who are trying to become the Budweiser of weed.
We have a long way to go. The government doesn’t want to hear it.
It’s a joke. I have nerve damage and occasionally use weed for sleep. It works a charm. But I’ve had to stop for the most part as roadside testing can sting you days afterwards. Countless studies show cannabis is safer than alcohol, and obviously far safer than cigarettes. But this government is too backwards to realise it.