National Legalise Cannabis Day 2022: Online Day of Action

A Chara,

The CAA is joining other Irish drug policy activists and groups in an online day of action to highlight the pressing issue of cannabis reform in Ireland. 

Every day people are criminalised for the personal use of cannabis, every day patients are among those criminalised due to our restrictive Medicinal Cannabis Access Programme, and every day those with the power to change this ignore the mounting evidence for change and ignore people's voices for change. 

Over 90% of Irish people are in favour of cannabis reform in some form, yet we have many Irish citizens living abroad to access medicinal cannabis as they do not qualify for our MCAP or the costs are prohibitive.

To highlight this, we aim to hold an online day of action to amplify the need for policy change. If you are a:

• Policy maker
• Advocacy group
• Public figure
• Advocate
• Patient
• Part of the cannabis community
• Etc.

We are hoping you will use your platform (big or small) to build a collective voice for change. We have highlighted several options below:

• Use the following hashtags

                     #CannabisReformlreland

                     #WhatAboutUs

                     #WeAreNotCriminals

                     #Decrim

• Post an infographic template from this collection using the hashtags above.
• Write a tweet/post supporting reform. We suggest "l support #CannabisReformlreland because..."
• Create a video/reel/tiktok explaining why you support reform.

Premade Graphics, provided by the wonderful Natalie O'Regan, are available on this link:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nFJ0p7kUJ3Uafi2bmO5DROoO5ADDiLVq 

Be sure to follow Natalie for future updates and campaigns!