20. Graham De Barra - Follow Up - Citizens Assembly reaction and NY Legalisation

Chapters:
00:00:00 The state of decriminalization in Portugal and cocaine cartels.
00:05:00 Media's coverage of drugs in Ireland perpetuates drug culture and profit.
00:10:00 Reflections on Citizens Assembly,
00:15:00 Confusion during a voting process Paul Reid criticism
00:20:00 The role of the civil service in running Ireland and the unknown players who are seen as faceless.
00:25:00 No real change to the status quo, and that people can still be criminalized for small amounts of cannabis.
00:30:00 Iegalization in US and the benefits - Hell's Kitchen Cannabis Collective
00:35:00 Social equity programs and the need for appropriate consumption lounges
00:40:00 Recent rollout of over-the-counter Naloxolone in New York pharmacies, still only by prescription in Ireland.
00:45:00 UK Medical cannabis clinics arrival in Ireland and the high cost of prescriptions in the UK
00:50:00 Healthcare system in Catalonia, Same population 3 times cheaper than Ireland

We promised a follow up to our last incredibly enlightening conversation with Irish Human Rights lawyer Graham De Barra.
Graham holds a LL.M in international human rights law and a B.A in philosophy/ psychology and he was awarded a full academic scholarship to complete the Drug Policy & Human course at Central European University.

Graham is also the Founder and Director of Ireland’s ‘HelpNotHarm’ a small but hard working group devoted to providing qualified guidance and harm reduction guidance to many of Ireland’s primary front line workers in the Drugs space and he was actually the one behind the first testing tent in Electric Picnic.

Currently based in Portugal where he is a grower himself and so has intimate knowledge of what it means to cultivate within Portugal.
Please check out his Casa Dos Drogas Youtube Channel where as mentioned in this Talk you can find his videos from his recent NY trip

We discussed a shared disappointment in the outcomes of the much lauded Citizen’s Assembly which in the end after 200 hours of speeches from 120 speakers who spoke mostly of the negative outcomes of Drugs including Cannabis. Despite!!! there being a disfunctional government funded programme MCAP there was never a mention of any benefits and actual patients were largely absent from the deliberation.
Was it for this that drove Vera Twomey to walk from her West Cork home to Leinster House and Deborah Downey fought for years pleading for oils that might help their children.
Sadly both Ava and Abi passed away this year RIP but there is still all the medical refugees that have again being cast from Ireland’s shores to safely access their plant medicine!

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