Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 April 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (Resumed)

9:10 am

Mr. Eugene Lennon:

Deputy Boyd Barrett raised a number of issues. It is illegal to take a controlled drug that has not been prescribed to one. That applies whether people are taking non-prescribed methadone, which is essentially heroin, Z-drugs or benzos for pain or whatever. It is an offence, so we are then getting into the wider issue of the decriminalisation-----

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