Right-to-die campaigner backs use of cannabis in medical cases

A right-to-die campaigner has said he has full confidence that the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes will be legalised in Ireland.

Speaking at a public meeting about the use of medicinal cannabis in Cork, Tom Curran said consideration should be given to cultivating the drug in Ireland.

Mr Curran was the partner of campaigner Marie Fleming, who died in 2013. The multiples sclerosis sufferer had waged an unsuccessful legal battle for the right to end her own life.