Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Pharmacies throughout the country dispense methadone, which is a very dangerous drug. It is highly illegal for anybody to have possession of methadone that is not prescribed and given out under controlled conditions by pharmacies. Is it enforced well? How is it enforced? We know there is leakage with methadone that gets sold on in the black market and so on. That could be just as easily applied. It would probably be a more serious proposition to say we need better enforcement of that. Nonetheless that happens now with methadone. I believe we should not create a higher bar for medicinal cannabis, which can help sufferers, than we would provide for methadone, which is being done currently. Why provide a higher bar?