A Canadian company is planning to sell cannabis beer in Ireland by next year.

Niall Phelan was co-founder of Rye River Brewing and is now chief operating officer with Province Brands in Canada.

The company has developed a new drink by infusing compounds from the cannabis plant into non-alcoholic beer.

Drinks sold in Ireland would contain CBD. In Canada they would also contain THC, which is currently illegal in Ireland and many other European countries.

Niall says the goal is "to brew healthy non-alcoholic products".

He says that alcohol has "all sorts of negative health connotations" according to the World Health Organisation, while research also suggests that CBD has a number of positive benefits.

As the beer is non-alcoholic, there will be no resulting hangover. It is not hallucinogenic, but could have a relaxing effect.

Niall hopes the product could ultimately act as an alcohol replacement: "If we could get to a place where we could replace alcohol consumption, that would be an amazing place to be."

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