Cannabis: We need policies that help, not harm

IS THERE a person out there who won’t join in Cork mother Vera Twomey’s joy following news that medicinal cannabis could soon be legal in Ireland, asks Clodagh Finn 
Cannabis: We need policies that help, not harm

It saved her daughter’s life, she says.

No wonder there was widespread support for an opposition bill allowing cannabis for medical use, which passed through the Dáil on Thursday without a vote. The significant number of Irish people who gave hopeful testimony, describing how the drug brought relief from a range of chronic, painful conditions has been backed up by scientific evidence for some time.

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