Vera Twomey: Medicinal cannabis changes will give 'some peace' to patients

Vera Twomey has welcomed the announcement by the health minister that she will not have to resume going abroad to collect medicinal cannabis as Covid-19 travel restrictions are lifted. Picture: Denis Minihane

The mother of a severely epileptic child has welcomed the health minister’s announcement that medicinal cannabis will continue to be brought into the country for patients post-Covid, saying it would “give them some peace". 

Vera Twomey had been travelling every 12 weeks to collect medical cannabis for her daughter Ava, with permission from the State, prior to April 6 when the Department of Health arranged for the medicine to be delivered to their home instead, in the wake of Covid-19 travel restrictions.