Medicinal cannabis offers ‘a new horizon’ for treatment of epilepsy

An expert group examining the merits of licensing medicinal cannabis is to report to Health Minister Simon Harris within weeks.

The Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) has been asked by Mr Harris to provide an expert opinion on medicinal cannabis and any policy and legislative changes needed.

HPRA chief executive Lorraine Nolan told an Oireachtas Committee on Health that a group of medical experts would be assisting the authority.