Preschool asks boy, 3, to leave over cannabis treatment fears

A three-year-old boy with a catastrophic form of epilepsy, who was the first person in Ireland to be legally allowed used cannabis for medicinal purposes, has been asked to leave his preschool because of concerns by staff in relation to the treatment of his condition.

Tristan Forde, from Dunmanway, Co Cork, who suffers from Dravet syndrome, lived in Colorado for more than a year with his mother Yvonne Cahalane. She decided to relocate there to administer the medicinal cannabis to her son in a bid to help reduce the number and severity of his seizures.

Yvonne moved back to West Cork recently after she received a guarantee from the health minister that her administering of cannabis oil to her son was legal. She enrolled Tristan in Naíonra Bheanntraí last month.