19. Cannabis Destymatised - Graham Temple - Crainn #cadrugsuse

Chapters Timestamp
• 00:00:00 Graham Temple, a Mental Health Nurse and one of the founders of CRAINN
• 00:05:00 the Stigma surrounding cannabis.
• 00:10:00 Use of cannabis as a pain reliever
• 00:15:00 Issue of prescribing cannabis within the legal framework of Northern Ireland
• 00:20:00 Cannabis destigmatization and legalization efforts internatiojnally .
• 00:25:00 Synthetic cannaboids are a result of cannabis prohibition
• 00:30:00 Problems with the regulation of cannabis in Ireland.
• 00:35:00 Beneficial for people who are isolated, such as the elderly and those with PTSD
• 00:40:00 Poland and Medical Cannabis
• 00:45:00 CRAINN background
• 00:50:00 Issue of ‘Stop and.
• 00:55:00 Drug decriminalization in Ireland.

Mental Health Nurse Graham Temple is a front-line worker with real experience of Drug users in the capital Dublin. It is his daily job and world up close and personal.
He is one of the founding members of Ireland’s foremost Cannabis regulation activist organisations CRAINN who have more than 40,000 young people on their Reddit and Discord platforms.
A young articulate educated passionate voice who makes for one of the most stunning interviews of the Canna We Talk Now? Series.We felt that he was one of the most impressive voices of the 120 speakers at the Citizens Assembly on Drugs and could see that he had a lot more than the allocated 7 minutes to say!The call ran to over one hour 20 minutes and it was so depressing to edit as it was filmed the day before the final day of the Assembly, the all important voting!
Every activist who had waited patiently for years for the Assembly just to take place and at times were filled with naive optimism that somehow this so called act of ‘Direct Democracy’ might produce some progressive recommendations which the milk livered politicians are required to read and react to transparently to what really is the outsourcing of decisions they are paid to make but don’t have the moral courage to do…

As I watched as I edited absolutely affected by the brilliance and integrity of Graham, knowing the outcome I had a true feeling of almost depression knowing that the ‘Citizens’ had chosen really naively to buy into a slogan of ‘Health Led Approach’ one that Steve Bannon could be proud of.
A Catch-all but meaningless slogan, so confusing that it caused the Citizen’s to vote in direct contradiction to what they had stated so emphatically at the start of the day that they wanted to change the status quo!!
But after a day largely of confusion that is exactly what they voted for... THE STATUS QUO!!!!‘Health led Approach’, can now join ‘Get Brexit Done’, ‘MAGA’ and the rest of the dumbing down sloganeering nonsense that makes it easy to accept and think you are making change!

The Gangs can rest assured tonight that it will be business as usual as this can has once again being launched into another age.
I know for a fact that passion like Graham's won't be quashed and honestly the FAILURE of this Assembly might have lit a spark under a completely disenfranchised 20% of the Irish population who are denied again their human rights!!