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Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 10 March 2021

Wednesday, 10 March 2021

Questions (913)

Gino Kenny

Question:

913. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Health his views on whether the interests of justice are served by applying Irish criminal drugs laws to food products which are not controlled within the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs when the express purpose of those Irish laws is to give effect to the convention; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13161/21]

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Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 , Article 2, the Definition of “food” states that “food shall not include narcotic or psychotropic substances within the meaning of the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, and the United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, 1971”.

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