17. ICC International - Graham De Barra - HelpNotHarm Portugal/Thailand

This is an incredibly enlightening conversation with Human Rights lawyer Graham De Barra an incredibly well traveled leading light of Irish Cannabis Activism.
Currently based in Portugal where he has been in touch with the 'Portuguese Model' and few in Ireland will know it better. This legislative model has been much discussed in the recent Irish Citizens Assembly on Drug Use and this conversation goes a long way to giving a real understanding about what it means.

Graham holds a LL.M in international human rights law and a B.A in philosophy/ psychology and he was awarded a full academic scholarship to complete the Drug Policy & Human course at Central European University.

During his studies, Graham founded Ireland's first Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) society, promoting drug education, first in UCC in 2011 and then in NUI Galway in 2013.

In 2016 Graham chaired the largest medical cannabis conference held in the European Parliament which featured medical practitioners, industry and governments & also hosted the Global Medical Cannabis conference in Dublin in the same year which was a catalyst to Ireland's subsequent regulatory approval and import of cannabis-based medicines by Ministerial exemption which developed the Medical Cannabis Access Program.

Since 2020 Graham has been involved in conservation efforts for certain plant species in the Azores.

Chapters
00:00 Start
02:30 Spanish #Right2Grow
03:27 Uruguay legalisation
05:30 Sth America, Coca Plant
08:10 Ella Godin - Utopia Nation
10:14 Luke 'Ming" Flanagan Bill
15:20 MCAP / Denmark
18:15 Portuguese Model
33:50 Casa das Drogas Art exhibition
37:00 Decrim - Low Hanging Fruit
40:40 EU Responsibility
45:00 Catalan V Irish Health System - €9billion V €23 Billion
57:00 Thailand legalisation

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