Above from left: Gino Kenny TD, Vera Twomey, barrister Niall Neligan, Kenny Tynan and and pro-medicinal cannabis GP, Dr Garreth McGovern
This afternoon.
Leinster House, Dublin 2
The launch of [legalise cannabis group] Fweed’s ’21st Century Approach to Regulating Cannabis’ by law academic Niall Neligan with independent TD Gino Kenny, activists Vera Twomey, Kenny Tynan and medic Dr Garreth McGovern.
At 3pm, parents of children, and individuals, in need of medicinal cannabis are invited to meet TDs in the Dáil, Noreen O’Neill, whose son Michael suffers seizures from bilateral frontal polymicrogyria, will describe her struggle to get oil for him.
Yesterday: A Chance To Talk About Medicinal Cannabis
Previously: Vera Twomey on Broadsheet
Update:
Thank you to Vera Twomey and Kenny Tynan for telling their stories in the Irish parliament today. Their courage in the face of adversity is very inspiring. @broadsheet_ie pic.twitter.com/WLoWdo2gYS
— fweed (@Fweed_) July 10, 2018
G’wan the Vera and Kenny.
Glad to see people who don’t look like they smoke weed at the forefront of this. We’ll never win medicinal marijuana if the protagonists are scraggly hippies (speaking as someone with two scraggly hippie parents).
agreed – we (the government) need to remove cannabis as a schedule 1 drug; and then (universities) begin clinical trials and (?) expose Irish doctors to relevant medical trials – so they can make medical decisions and advise patients accordingly.