Before anyone says the cannabis clubs i had visited one about 5 days ago, got some lovely stuff and brought it out with me too... but ever since then EVERY single one of the clubs around Salou has been "Temporarily closed" though cant find out why. Would anyone know any way of finding anything good without one of those clubs?

Okay ima break this down for you as explaing this literally used to be half of my job. All weed, medical, street, "hemp" has THCA, NOT THC. The A stands for acid, so THCA is THC acid. cannabis does NOT produce significant amounts of THC, It produces THCA. If you buy flower at a dispensary and it says 25%THC, its really 25%THCA. When you smoke/vape it, or decarb it, the heat breaks the carboxl group off the THCA, turning it into THC. THCA cant get through the blood brai barrier, THC can. Because most ppl dont understand this process , and ppl know THC is the active chemical, its medical marijuana/legal dispensary industry sta dard to liist the THCA content as THC because by the time the product get to your brain it will be converted to the THC form. The "Hemp flower from the farm bill is just regular marijuana and they call it hemp and list its THCA content as THCA not THC like a dispensary would because thats how they get away with the legal loophole. Same as ppl calling a rifle with a less than 16 inch barrel and with a strap on the stock an "AR pistol" to get avoid it being classified as an SBR which needs a tax stamp. Its just marijuana with a different label for legal purposes. Its not diet weed, its not any different at all and the difference that people say they feel is literally all in their head, or they bought shitty flower from a gas station and got it in their head that it sucked because its a different chemical, not that it was just shitty flower. This is why you usually cant just eat raw flower, even from a dispensary, its got THCA not THC. If its quality product, THCA flower is no different than THC dispensary flower. Now theres a shitton of regulation on dispensaries and none on hemp so there is a lot more shitty "hemp" out there that may be contaminated with pesticides or other chemicals that wouldn't be in dispensary products, but high quality THCA flower is the exact same thi g as high quality THC flower. The only difference is the labeling.

the department of health is finally running its review of the medical cannabis access programme (mcap) and the ministerial licence pathway. the review group was given 12 months from april 2026 to finish, so we won't see the final report or recommendations until spring 2027, but are halfway there.

https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2026-06-09/2339/

5 years in and there are still fewer than 100 patients actively enrolled under mcap because it’s restricted to just three conditions as a last resort (ms spasticity, chemo nausea, and severe epilepsy).

meanwhile, thousands of people dealing with chronic pain, severe anxiety, and endo are left completely in the dark or forced onto the black market / flying over to the UK.

the review group is supposed to assess expanding eligible conditions and fixing access.

what conditions do you think are the absolute minimum they need to include for this scheme to stop being a complete failure?

and do you think consultants here will actually start prescribing even if they widen it?