Corkman who uses cannabis for epilepsy had to lie to daughter when jailed

The Cannabis Risk Network views the current sanction of imprisonment for personal drug use to be “excessive and unreasonable”

Corkman Martin Condon, a director of the Patients for Safe Access group, revealed he had been imprisoned in Cork prison on one occasion. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

A man who uses cannabis for epilepsy has told the Oireachtas Justice Committee that he had to lie to his young daughter when jailed because she thought “prison was for bad people”.

Corkman Martin Condon is a director of the Patients for Safe Access group, and told the committee that he has to buy cannabis on the black market.