How We Grow

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Written by, District 29 – Ireland

Much gratitude from District 29 Ireland to you for inviting us to celebrate Irish Heritage Month with you.

For those of you who may not be familiar with D29, we are a small but growing district, officially born in 2024 thanks to the dedicated service of a handful of marijuana addicts who believed in keeping recovery alive in Ireland.

The Marijuana Anonymous fellowship in Ireland began with a single in-person meeting in Dublin back in 2014. We remain deeply grateful to the very few people who kept the flame of recovery from marijuana addiction burning during those early years.

With the arrival of COVID, that meeting moved online. By 2023, we had grown to three online meetings alongside two in-person meetings. At that time, we kept our online meeting links private to avoid disruptions. Later that same year, we made the collective decision to list our online meetings on the MA meeting finder—and attendance soared within weeks.

Growth did not come without challenges. We experienced our share of online disruptions, but we responded by creating safety protocols and training our service members to protect the atmosphere of recovery. What emerged was a stronger, more resilient fellowship.

Although we were affiliated with our fellows of the UK District 14, by early 2024 we realised that we were already operating as a district in practice. We were fully self-supporting, sending recurring donations to MA World Services, organising social events such as game nights (both online and in person), and supported by a consistent and committed service team. For these reasons, in May 2024 we presented our request to become ratified as a district at the World Conference—and here we are.

As we begin 2026, District 29 Ireland continues to grow and thrive. We now host five online meetings with excellent attendance, as well as two in-person meetings in Dublin city. Our service team includes dedicated fellows from across Europe, the United States, and Canada, and we are proud to be a truly international Irish district.

If you’ve never attended one of our meetings, we invite you to find us on the meeting finder and join us in celebrating Irish Heritage Month this March. You may just find a few good reasons to stay—and to share your experience, strength, and hope with us.

Published in A New Leaf – March 2026

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