Medicinal cannabis campaigner Vera Twomey has said that she was “devastated” to read the comments of doctors who criticised “the one-sided debate on cannabis.”Ireland is “sleepwalking” into the legalisation of cannabis on the back of a campaign of misinformation about the drug, according to doctors who have set up a new group to campaign against liberalisation. Ms Twomey is calling for a balanced approach to the issue adding that she had to fight for two years to get medicinal cannabis for her daughter Ava Barry who has severe epilepsy. “She’s at school today, she’s thriving, she hasn’t been admitted to hospital in two years. “Decriminalisation and ‘medicinal cannabis’ campaigns have proved to be effective Trojan horse strategies on the road to full legalisation and commercialisation elsewhere,” the doctors say in a letter published in the Irish Times today. Some of this stuff (in the letter) is highly charged.”He said he agreed with concern expressed about corporations getting involved in the production and sale of medicinal cannabis.

Source: Irish Examiner May 20, 2019 10:07 UTC