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Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction | Review
Read more: Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction | ReviewMaia Szalavitz is an author and journalist focused on neuroscience, addiction and drug policy. She has written for the likes of High Times, VICE, The New York Times and The Guardian. Her newest book, Undoing Drugs, provides a comprehensive history of North American harm reduction movements, which arose as a response to the frightening AIDS…
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Laura & Laura Jayne at Cannabis: A New Green Deal by Uplift.ie | 20.04.2021
Read more: Laura & Laura Jayne at Cannabis: A New Green Deal by Uplift.ie | 20.04.2021Laura Jayne Foley has a Masters in Agricultural Innovation from NUIG (the National University of Ireland, Galway). She is a co-founder of Canabaoil Ltd. and 1Wild Atlantic Hemp. She is also a board member of 2Hemp Co-Operative Ireland. Laura Curry Cloney is the founder of 3The Hemp Higher Project, which was a finalist in 4The…
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Laura | 15.06.2021
Read more: Laura | 15.06.2021Laura suffers with chronic depression, anxiety, insomnia and back pain, which she was prescribed Valium for ten years ago. She says she hasn’t ‘popped’ a Valium since a few years ago, when she lived in Canada and had access to medical cannabis. Twitter / Instagram: @ucancallmelola Can you please outline your relationship with alcohol in…
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Nicole & Roderick at Cannabis: A New Green Deal by Uplift.ie | 20.04.2021
Read more: Nicole & Roderick at Cannabis: A New Green Deal by Uplift.ie | 20.04.2021Nicole Lonergan first became involved in speaking out about cannabis circa 2014. Through 1Cork Cannabis Activist Network, she raises awareness about the benefits of cannabis and the extensive harms of prohibition. Roderick Campbell is a member of Uplift, as well as 2The Irish Medical Cannabis Council. He is currently setting up The Irish Cannabis Co-Op.…
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You Get What You Pay For
Read more: You Get What You Pay ForNicholas looks into the issues that occur in the regulated market which will serve as a blueprint for what we need to avoid down the road when Ireland joins the discussion of cannabis reform. As we gradually move towards the legalisation of cannabis, we must acknowledge such regulation would incur several differences not normally experienced…
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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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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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