There’s nothing surprising in today’s news that a quarter of UCC students have used cannabis, or ‘weed’ over the course of the past year, nor should there be.

A medical cannabis act similar to California's Propisition 215 which passed into law in 1996 has been submitted to the Irish goverment by Dublin man Gordon Mc Ardle.

Two cannabis factories growing 900 plants with elaborate equipment have been discovered hidden in separate houses.

A COUNCILLOR who shot to prominence by campaigning for the legalisation of cannabis is to become the new mayor of Roscommon town.

A businessman who stored over €50,000 worth of cannabis to pay off debts from his cocaine use and his business partner's gambling has received an eight year sentence with two suspended.