Historical Newspaper Articles
2 min readJun 30, 2018
By Brian Houlihan
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Occasionally I post old Irish newspaper articles to our social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. These stories are a snippet of history which are insightful and sometimes funny. Below are a selection of these stories which provide snapshot of Irish cannabis/hemp history.
Premiums For Growing Hemp (1788)
Growing Hemp In Free State Ireland (1937)
Hemp Growing In Carlow (1961)
Hemp For Paper (1974)
Dr. Risteárd Mulcahy’s Letter Against Misuse Of Drugs Act (1976)
Cannabis To Fight Potato Blight (1993)
Teagasc Promotes Hemp Growing (1995)
Sativex Trials (2003)
Hemp beer investigated (2005)
Brian Houlihan is the curator of the Dublin Hemp Museum and regularly writes about hemp. Follow him on Twitter @dubhempmuseum and@houlihanbrian. You can also find the museum on Facebook.