Gino Kenny

The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Drugs Use published its interim report responding to 36 recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Drug Use, among which is the decriminalization of personal use and possession of illegal drugs. “The Committee has given a reasoned response to each Citizens...

The Irish government is set to debate a proposed bill to decriminalize cannabis for personal use on Wednesday. However, on Tuesday, Taoiseach Leo Varadka said that Ireland shouldn't copy other countries' cannabis policies but instead make its own, proposing a nine-month voting delay.  Health...

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People Before Profit, an Irish political party, will introduce a bill to decriminalize cannabis in the Dáil -the lower house of the Irish legislature, in July. The use of recreational marijuana is still illegal in Ireland and 75% of drug-related arrests are for simple possession....

In Ireland, people with chronic pain are seeking legal access to medical cannabis, arguing that the current scheme is too restrictive.  Ireland's medical marijuana program has only three qualifying conditions: plasticity associated with MS, nausea associated with...