Toddler with epilepsy first to get licence for marijuana use

A toddler with a catastrophic form of epilepsy has become the first person in Ireland to be legally allowed use marijuana for medicinal purposes.

Tristan Forde from Dunmanway, Co Cork, who suffers from Dravet Syndrome, has lived US for over a year with his mother, Yvonne and brother Oscar.

She decided to relocate in order to administer the medicinal marijuana to her son in a bid to help reduce the number and severity of his seizures.