Mother: We need medicinal cannabis and our policymakers don’t seem to care

The young mother of a boy with a brain condition — who had been seizure-free for months — is pleading with the Government to make it easier to access medicinal cannabis, before he becomes gravely ill.

Noreen O’Neill said she will overcome whatever barriers the State puts in her way to secure THC medication for her only child, Michael, aged 20-months, whose seizures have flared up again.

Fighting back tears during a press conference in Cork yesterday, Ms O’Neill, who is originally from Kilgarvan, Co Kerry, and who has had to give up her teaching job and move to Cork to be closer to hospital, said she wants Health Minister Simon Harris to simplify the licensing system immediately, on humanitarian grounds.