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Dr. Órfhlaith Campbell | Belfast, Northern Ireland | 12.11.2020
Read more: Dr. Órfhlaith Campbell | Belfast, Northern Ireland | 12.11.2020Doctor Órfhlaith Campbell is a Belfast-based historian, wellbeing practitioner and drug reform activist with a PhD on the The Irish Temperance League of 1858-1914, which campaigned during a time of major political upheaval across the island. She has a background in community work, having worked in a range of positions in Vancouver, Canada, supporting adults…
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Vera Twomey | Cork | 21.11.2020
Read more: Vera Twomey | Cork | 21.11.2020Vera Twomey‘s daughter Ava suffers from Dravet’s Syndrome – a rare and severe form of epilepsy which causes multiple seizures a day. Twitter: @Veras1 The attention your 2017 sit down protest and your 2018 protest walk from Cork to Dublin drew are seen by many in Ireland to have been highly influential in seeing the…
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Nicole of Cork Cannabis Activist Network | 10.11.2020
Read more: Nicole of Cork Cannabis Activist Network | 10.11.2020Nicole runs the Cork Cannabis Activist Network across social media. She has been consistently drawing attention to how cannabis is presented in the Irish media and highlighting government inaction on legalisation. CCAN is on Instagram: @corkcan / Twitter: @cork_can What first drew you to cannabis? I can’t actually pinpoint a specific memory, but I do…
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Natalie O’Regan | Cork, Ireland | 01.11.2020
Read more: Natalie O’Regan | Cork, Ireland | 01.11.2020Natalie is a Master of Law candidate at University College Cork with an interest in drug policy reform and harm reduction. Her area of research involves the criminological theory of stigma and its impact on cannabis users. She advocates for decriminalisation as the first step needed in the process of removing such stigma. Twitter: @NatalieORegan1…
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Anonymous | Ireland | 05.10.2020
Read more: Anonymous | Ireland | 05.10.2020Richard chats with a multi-faceted performer who incorporates burlesque, aerials and pole dancing into her shows. That’s when she’s not modelling, organising events, producing, or booking talent. She also runs a burlesque and cabaret variety show. This interview has been redacted in places, with certain sections cut to ensure the interviewee’s anonymity. Hello! Hi! You…
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Alicia Maher | Alicante, Spain | 23.09.2020
Read more: Alicia Maher | Alicante, Spain | 23.09.2020Alicia Maher is a University of Limerick PhD Candidate in Law, writing a paper on the regulation of medicinal cannabis in Ireland. She talks about her history of chronic pain, her difficulties accessing medical cannabis, the Medical Cannabis Symposium she helped organise at UL last year and more. Twitter: @alicialmaher Hi Alicia, thanks so much…
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Sienna Moodie | Palm Springs, California | 18.09.2020
Read more: Sienna Moodie | Palm Springs, California | 18.09.2020Sienna Moodie is an Oakland native who (under normal circumstances) works as a yoga instructor in Oakland, San Francisco and Los Angeles. She incorporates cannabis into her yoga sessions and uses it personally on a daily basis. Since this interview took place, she launched her online five-week Live Your Yoga course, where one can “learn…
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Barry | 17.09.2020
Read more: Barry | 17.09.2020Barry is a Cork native who has been an advocate of cannabis for many years. In this conversation, he tells us about his letter-sending campaign which began on the 14th of July, as well as his experience of the Cork Canna Expo at Fitzgerald Park on August 8th, where he collected signatures for the letters to…
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