Gardaí are investigating the illegal dumping of 22 bags of cannabis plants which were discovered by the side of the road in Meath by a litter warden last Tuesday.

Gardaí made five arrests following searches across four locations in Co. Roscommon, Co.Mayo and Co.Sligo, yesterday and seized an estimated €289k worth of cannabis (pending analysis).

Families granted access to medicinal cannabis under the State’s compassionate access programme fear crippling medical costs amid uncertainty over the HSE’s reimbursement policy.

Gardaí have seized €130,000 worth of cannabis and cocaine at a property in Dublin.

A 45-year-old man caught cultivating cannabis at his home in Kanturk has been jailed for one year as the sentencing judge said he was not going to sanction the man’s belief that cannabis was a useful medication for him.

Cultivating more than €300,000 worth of cannabis at grow houses in three locations across County Cork resulted in a man getting a suspended jail term.

Two men said to have “played an integral part in the distribution of cannabis throughout Ireland” have had their original prison sentences more than doubled by the Court of Appeal, following an appeal by prosecutors.

Gardaí have seized a large quantity of cannabis herb in County Cork.

Gardaí in Donegal have found a cannabis grow house.

Revenue officers in Portlaoise have seized drugs worth €194,000.

Police in the North have seized cannabis with an estimated street value of over £200,000 following searches in Belfast.

A Garda sniffer dog, Laser, detected a cannabis growhouse worker hiding in the chimney breast of a luxury lakeside home last May, a court has heard.

Patients are set to get “life-changing” medical cannabis before Christmas thanks to the approval of two products for sale here.

Just as legalising cannabis, even medicinal cannabis, is still regarded in some quarters as proof that the barbarians are at the gates, the legalisation of contraception — the first of many loosing laws — was seen in that light too.

Gardaí have seized €100,000 of cannabis.

A chef, who has cooked at Aras an Uachtarain, has admitted cultivating cannabis.

Campaigners and patients have hit out at the slow roll-out of medical cannabis that means they must still buy the drug on the black market.

Campaigners and patients have hit out at the slow roll-out of medical cannabis - meaning they must still buy the drug from the black market.

A man has pleaded guilty to having a homemade growhouse in which he had 20 cannabis plants under lights in a wardrobe.

Escalating cannabis-related health problems among young people has coincided with the arrival of a more potent form of the illegal drug, medical experts have shown.

Stephen Sarsfield (aged 39), of New Street Gardens, Dublin 8, pleaded guilty to possessing €4,170,932 of cannabis and heroin for sale or supply at an address on Ballyfermot Drive, on July 17, 2017.

Teenage cannabis users in treatment are typically daily smokers spending as much as €50-€100 per day, new research has found.

Medicinal cannabis campaigner, Vera Twomey, who fought a lengthy campaign to secure THC oil for her sick daughter Ava has published a book detailing her experiences.

It was discovered during a search of a property in the Kiltyclogher area on Wednesday.

Revenue officers in Dublin, helped by detector dog Bailey, have seized 500 grammes of herbal cannabis worth €10,000.

An arthritis sufferer who was using cannabis to treat his pain has received a suspended jail term after being caught with over five kilogrammes of the drug.

A man has been arrested and £6,500 of suspected cannabis seized during a search operation by detectives in the North.

Revenue officers have seized approximately 1kg of herbal cannabis following a search, under warrant, of a property in Lucan, Co. Dublin today.

Around €10,000 worth of cannabis was grown by a Cork man with Asperger’s syndrome as part of his plan to self-medicate with the drug.

There has been a 56% increase in the amount of cannabis seized by Revenue this year.

When Health Minister Simon Harris recently signed legislation to allow for the operation of the Medical Cannabis Access Programme on a five-year pilot basis, he opened the door wider for an emerging sector which has significant potential to create jobs and a new revenue stream for the Government’s coffers.

A mother who said she felt like a criminal after security at Dublin Airport seized her son's THC medicinal cannabis last December has described the new legislation for access to such products as "life-changing".

Medicinal cannabis campaigner, Vera Twomey, who secured a licence for the medication for her ill daughter Ava has cautiously welcomed the signing in to law of the access programme.

A Garda review of 70 cannabis growhouse cases did not find that a single person arrested at the production facilities was a victim of human trafficking, a major US report has found.

People Before Profit TD Gino Kenny has hit back in a row with the Taoiseach over his response to a parliamentary question on medicinal cannabis this week.

The increasing strength of cannabis is causing a major problem for young people in Ireland, according to the Dublin North Regional Drugs Task Force.

Gardaí have seized cannabis after stopping two men in Tallaght today.

The Health Minister has granted medicinal cannabis be used to treat 20 patients after their doctors applied for a special licence.