Irish cannabis data
Figures that get quoted in the news, traced back to their official sources. Every piece links each number to where it came from, and the datasets are free to download and reuse.
Five years into Ireland's cannabis caution, about 3 in 4 people caught still don't get one. And fewer cautions are issued each year.
Every published count since cannabis joined the adult caution scheme in December 2020 puts the share cautioned at 23% to 26%. The number of cautions each year has fallen. We dated every figure.
8 min read · By Brian Cusack
Ireland quietly cut the value of a kilo of herbal cannabis by 30% in August. Here is when it happened, and what seizure headlines mean now
Revenue and Garda releases valued herbal cannabis at €20,000 a kilo until August 2026, and €14,000 since. We dated the change from 449 seizure figures and converted the headlines back into kilos.
8 min read · By Brian Cusack
Ireland's forensic lab fell 3,415 drug cases behind in 2024. We can't find a published backlog figure since 2023
Courts keep adjourning drugs cases while the State waits for lab analysis. The last public count of cases waiting was 3,527 in June 2023. We put Forensic Science Ireland's own yearly figures side by side to show what has happened since.
10 min read · By Brian Cusack