Irish political party plans to introduce cannabis legislation next year
Gino Kenny of People Before Profit will introduce a bill to legalize cannabis in Ireland next year.
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An Irish political party has announced that it will bring legislation before the Government next year that, if passed, would end the prohibition of cannabis in Ireland.Â
Gino Kenny of Solidarity - People Before Profit announced on Twitter on Monday, December 14, that the party would bring the legislation before the Dáil in 2021, the first time in eight years that a bill to legalize cannabis will go before the Irish Government.Â
Cork mother urges State to act on medical cannabis If the people making decisions in those offices could see those children, it would break them Noreen O Neill, who is calling for medical cannabis to be made available through the drug payment scheme and medical cads, with her son Michael. Picture: Jim Coughlan
Fri, 18 Dec, 2020 - 08:26
Liz Dunphy
Severely ill children are being left to suffer without their medication because the Government still has not allowed medical cannabis to be covered under the drug payment, medical card, or long-term illness schemes.
Noreen O’Neill, whose four-year-old son Michael is severely epileptic, said although she can technically be prescribed medicinal cannabis in Ireland, she cannot afford its €1,200 per month price tag and is buying in non-medical grade CBD oil from the UK instead for £400 (€443) per month.
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Irish medical cannabis users no longer have to travel to the Netherlands to collect their prescriptions.