Medical cannabis bill rejected by committee due to legal issues
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A private member’s bill to make cannabis available for medicinal purposes has been rejected by the Oireachtas health committee.
The committee’s report warned that the bill raised legal issues and that its proposed framework was “too loose to effectively guard against leakage of supply to recreational users”.
The committee’s report also outlines that it is “concerned that the Bill proposes to remove cannabis from the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977”, which may have the effect of decriminalising cannabis use for all users.
It said that doing so “seems in conflict with the intention of the Bill, which is to make cannabis available specifically for medicinal use as expressed in the title of the Bill”.
The committee found that too many amendments would be required to solve the problems it identified in the bill.
The Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016 was proposed by People Before Profit TDs Gino Kenny and Richard Boyd Barrett.
The bill made it to the committee stage after the Government announced it would not oppose the bill at second stage.
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