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Evie Nevin | 26.05.21
Read more: Evie Nevin | 26.05.21Evie Nevin is a political and disability rights activist. She is a member and former election candidate of the 1Social Democrats party and hosts 2The Zebra Mom Podcast, where she speaks with neurodivergent and disabled women. She has 3Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, a genetic connective tissue disorder which causes the production of faulty collagen. She has…
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Seán McCabe at ‘Cannabis: A New Green Deal’ by Uplift | 20.04.2021
Read more: Seán McCabe at ‘Cannabis: A New Green Deal’ by Uplift | 20.04.20211Seán McCabe is the Executive Manager of 2TASC, the Think Tank for Action on Social Change. In this excerpt, he is introducing a TASC report which was commissioned by 3Uplift, as a guest panelist on their online discussion, Cannabis: A New Green Deal. This discussion was streamed on April 20th of this year. The following…
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No Country for Auld Smokers
Read more: No Country for Auld SmokersNicholas looks into two recent arrests of mature cannabis users which have provided a different perspective on the type of people affected by Irish Drug Laws. With the recent news of a 54-year-old man being convicted over €4 worth of cannabis, one has to think how much longer will this go on? The thousands of…
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Milly Gilbert | 20.05.2021
Read more: Milly Gilbert | 20.05.2021Milly Gilbert lives in the UK. She suffers with mental health and physical conditions including depression, generalised anxiety, C-PTSD (complex post traumatic stress disorder), 1dissociative seizures, 2hEDS (Hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome) and 3fibromyalgia. She has a private medical cannabis prescription for thirty grams of indica flower a month and 50mls of oil (CBD 10:THC 5),…
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Carolyn Barry | Nottingham, UK | 13.05.2021
Read more: Carolyn Barry | Nottingham, UK | 13.05.2021Carolyn Barry is an Irish journalist based in Nottingham, England. She writes for 1The Cannavist and 2Vapouround magazines on vaping, CBD and cannabis. With over 13 years of experience as a journalist, she has worked in radio and written for publications across the UK, Ireland and the US. She has written about LGBT+ rights, culture,…
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Reefer Madness – Tackling Misinformation
Read more: Reefer Madness – Tackling MisinformationNicholas touches on the recent article published by the Irish Times where the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland warn of the effects cannabis have on young Irish people in the wake of the covid pandemic. While propaganda has always been a means to constrain the truth and limit people’s perception of certain issues and hardships,…
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Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear | Review
Read more: Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear | ReviewDoctor Carl Hart is a Professor of Psychology, specialising in Neuroscience at Columbia University in New York. He is well-known for his research on drug abuse and addiction, which has been his passion for over 25 years. He opens his latest book, 1Drug Use for Grown-Ups, with the lines: “I am an unapologetic drug user.…
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