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Should We Decriminalise Personal Use Of Cannabis?

The government is to defer legislation to decriminalise small amounts of drugs for personal use for nine months.

People Before Profit’s bill would allow the possession of up to 7 grams of cannabis and up to 2-and-a-half grams of cannabis resin without prosecution.

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The party has claimed the government is “kicking the can down the road,” adding that it won’t be resolved before the next general election.

Alan Morrissey spoke with Vera Twomey, who campaigned for medicinal cannabis. Vera spent years fighting a lengthy, but ultimately successful, campaign to obtain medicinal cannabis for her 13-year-old daughter, Ava.

Ava, who was experiencing catastrophic and potentially life-ending seizures before using medicinal cannabis, passed away in May of last year, following a lifelong battle with a rare form of epilepsy called Dravet Syndrome.

Alan also spoke with Micheal Guerin, an Addiction counsellor at Cuan Mhuire, Bruree to discuss this further.

You can listen to the full interview below.

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