Michael Harty (Clare, Independent)
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Section 44 refers to banning the smoking of cannabis in the workplace in the same way as tobacco is banned. This suggests that smoking cannabis outside the workplace would be acceptable. Can the Deputy comment on that?

If pure, synthetic components of the cannabis plant, CBD and THC, could be developed, would that satisfy the provision of medicinal cannabis as a product, as opposed to providing the plant extract in its own right? There are two references to recreational use in the Bill. In section 12 of Part 3 it states:

The Institute shall perform the following functions:

(a) conduct or commission and publish cannabis-related research in the areas of—

(i) safety, risks and benefits of medicinal and/or recreational use,

In section 41 of Part 11 it states: "the Minister shall have regard to legislative regimes in other jurisdictions concerning the regulation of the recreational and medicinal use of cannabis."

Can the Deputy address those four questions?