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Allison of Her Highness | 09.09.21
Read more: Allison of Her Highness | 09.09.21Allison Krongard runs Her Highness with her friend and business partner Laura Eisman in New York, where they sell a lifestyle collection of ‘THC and CBD products designed to increase joy in women’s lives & remove the stigma of cannabis use’. They sell stylish high end products across three channels, to accommodate different regions with…
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No Country for Auld Smokers (Part II)
Read more: No Country for Auld Smokers (Part II)Nicholas revisits the Keogh’s Crisps case and delves into more cases of arrests concerning cannabis seizures amongst older demographics. As the Keogh’s Crisps case comes to a close, a number of arrests have been made for those not commonly associated with news stories of cannabis seizures. Anthony Keogh, aged 64, the former Keogh’s Crisps director…
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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
Read more: Seán McCabe at ‘Cannabis: A New Green Deal’ by Uplift1Seán 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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