Ireland is ready to legalize marijuana according to Roscommon TD Luke
Ming Flanagan, who published his Cannabis Regulation Bill 2013
Mr. Flanagan estimates legalizing cannabis could generate up to €300
million through tax revenues and the freeing up of resources. Although
Flanagan stresses it is just a estimate and its impossible to know for
sure, its still saving Ireland a lot of money. “If
cannabis is legalised, we can make a shopping list out of the amount of
money which legalising cannabis will save this country,” said the TD.
These savings could, he said, lead to the reversal of
the recent Budget cuts including cuts to the bereavement grant, cuts to
young people’s social welfare payments and the abolition of the
telephone allowance.
The Bill, which is due to be debated in the Dáil on November 5th and 6th, would, if passed:
- regulate cannabis for recreational and medical use
- allow for home cultivation up to a maximum of six cannabis plant
- allow for the personal possession of up to one ounce of cannabis
- allow for the setting up of “Cannabis Social Clubs” which would allow up to 50 club members to cultivate up to 300 plants for not-for-profit use
- set up a “cannabis regulation authority” to regulate the cultivation, sale, labelling, advertising and marketing of cannabis
- see tax revenue from cannabis fund drug addiction services, medical research and juvenile education courses on drugs.
- include a requirement that the Minister for Justice and Minister for Agriculture to examine the feasibility of the safe regulation and controlled use of cannabis......
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