Carrying cannabis medicine to be legal

DEPARTMENT of Health officials have been instructed by the Department of Justice to enact an EU agreement which allows people to carry legally prescribed narcotic or psychotropic drugs for medical use.

The move comes after Galway man Noel McCullagh, who uses a cannabis- based drug for multiple sclerosis, sought a guarantee that he wouldn’t be arrested for bringing it into the country.

McCullagh, however, lost his bid as the European ombudsman who said, although he was “deeply touched” by the case, had not found a breach of European law in the matter.